New pub. from the lab !
We discovered that potato tubers exert intense selective pressure during Dickeya solani infection, driving the rapid emergence of mutations in the sRNA ArcZ. These mutations lead to the appearance of "social cheaters" that sweep through the pop. in as few as 30 generations.
Erwan Gueguen
Host infection selects for sRNA variants that drive bacterial social cheating https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695336v1
