Bacteriophage Ecology

Stephen T. Abedon is Associate Professor of Microbiology at The Ohio State University, He contributed to the editing of The Bacteriophages (2006) and founded the Bacteriophage Ecology Group at http://www.phage.org to encourage collaboration and to provide a central resource for the bacteriophage community.

• Preface; 1. Phage, ecology, evolution Stephen T. Abedon; Part I. Phage Ecology: 2. Bacteriophage: models for exploring basic principles of ecology Benjamin Kerr, Jevin West and Brendan J. M. Bohannan; 3. Phage population growth: constraints, games, adaptation Stephen T. Abedon; 4. Impact of spatial structure on phage population growth Stephen T. Abedon and John Yin; 5. Contribution of lysogeny, pseudolysogeny, and starvation to phage ecology Robert V. Miller and Martin J. Day; Part II. Phage Evolutionary Biology: 6. Phage evolutionary biology Siobain Duffy and Paul E. Turner; 7. Phage evolution Roger W. Hendrix; 8. Evolutionary ecology of multiple phage adsorption and infection Paul E. Turner and Siobain Duffy; 9. Patterns in phage experimental adaptation J. J. Bull; Part III. Phage Ecology in Environments: 10. Aquatic phage ecology T. Frede Thingstad, Gunnar Bratbak and Mikal Heldal; 11. Phage ecology of terrestrial environments Martin J. Day and Robert V. Miller; 12. Phage, bacteria, and food Lawrence D. Goodridge; 13. Interaction of bacteriophages with animals Carl R. Merril; 14. Phage ecology of bacterial pathogenesis Paul Hyman and Stephen T. Abedon; Part IV. Modeling Phage Ecology: 15. Modeling bacteriophage population growth David Stopar and Stephen T. Abedon; 16. Modeling phage plaque growth Stephen M. Krone and Stephen T. Abedon; 17. Modeling of bacteriophage therapy Jason J. Gill.

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