Live and let die: Lysis time variability and resource limitation shape lytic bacteriophage fitness
Fig 3
Dependence of bacteriophage growth rate on lysis time under optimal conditions.
a. Bacteriophage effective growth rate k as a function of mean lysis time, with either 0 minutes or 2.5 minutes standard deviation in lysis time. Inset: example lysis time distributions with mean 17 minutes, std 0 (solid line) or 2.5 minutes (dashed line). b. Optimal lysis time under ‘linear with eclipse’ model as a function of lysis time std. c. Effective growth rate achieved at optimal lysis time, under ‘linear with eclipse’ model, as a function of lysis time std. d. to f. Effective growth rate as a function of both mean lysis time and lysis time std for ‘normal’, ‘’linear‘, and ‘linear with eclipse’ models respectively.