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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes.

Nature, 577, 327-336. 2020.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Hampton, Watson, Fineran. Summarizes, and documents with 173 references, the extensive research on the multitude of methods that bacteriophages use to disable the CRISPR immune system attacks from their bacteria hosts.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

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