A selfish bacteriocin dictates pneumococcal domination.
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2023
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Trappetti, C.
Paton, J.C.
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Cell Host and Microbe, 2023; 31(1):7-8
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Claudia Trappetti, James C. Paton
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Efficient colonization of new hosts is critical for survival of Streptococcus pneumoniae. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Aggarwal et al. investigate the population dynamics of this process, demonstrating how a quorum-sensing bacteriocin locus promotes survival of individual clonal lineages, providing a population bottleneck and restricting genetic diversity.
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