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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No change, and not a one of the critters to be found, nohow. The other microbes would happily move into its niche as the niche, itself, wanders idly off, leaving these slow-adapting, ineducable throwbacks to fade quietly into history.
Posted by: Nathan Myers | March 09, 2011 at 08:09 PM