Suppose a marine bacterium evolved the perfect phage defense, one that no phage could overcome. A thousand years hence, what changes would you expect to see in the marine microbial community?
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May be it would not induce any outcome significantly. Transfer of genetic material can be done since bacteria can produce plasmid and use pilus to make transformation.
However, I don't think the perfect phage defense would help to incerase the bacteria population a lot. As it is mentioned, phage is not the only predator of bacteria. It may enhance the amount of others predator of the bacteria in a little bit.
I think that the situation after thousand years would remain unchanged in the marine microbial community, but in biology ^^
Posted by: Carl Chan | March 16, 2011 at 01:56 AM