The ecological consequences and evolution of retron-mediated suicide as a way to protect Escherichia coli from being killed by phage

• Brandon A. Berryhill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Program in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (MMG), Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS), Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3430-0901

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• Joshua A. Manuel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6689-6549

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• Rodrigo Garcia,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Bruce R. Levin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blevin@emory.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3600-2780

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