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Yuval Dahan, Ned S Wingreen, Yigal Meir, The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2024, pgad431, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad431 Competing Interest: The authors declare no competing interest. Yuval Dahan, Ned S Wingreen, Yigal Meir, The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2024, pgad431, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad431 Phages—viruses that infect bacteria—have evolved over billions of years to overcome bacterial defenses. Temperate phage, upon infection, can “choose” between two pathways: lysis—in which the phage create multiple new phage particles, which are then liberated by cell lysis, and lysogeny—where the phage’s genetic material is added to the bacterial DNA and transmitted to the bacterial progeny. It was recently discovered that some phages can read information from the environment related to the density of bacteria or the number of nearb

Yuval Dahan, Ned S Wingreen, Yigal Meir, The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2024, pgad431, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad431 Competing Interest: The authors declare no competing interest. Yuval Dahan, Ned S Wingreen, Yigal Meir, The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2024, pgad431, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad431 Phages—viruses that infect bacteria—have evolved over billions of years to overcome bacterial defenses. Temperate phage, upon infection, ca