๐Ÿ”ฌ Phage Population

Phages for which host ranges substantially overlap, wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography" target="_blank" class="bap-term">geographical ranges substantially overlap, and coinfection can lead to substantial homologous recombination or equivalent reassortment with high likelihood of viable outcomes.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Phage Population is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/phage_population.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Phage Population: Phages for which host ranges substantially overlap, wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography" target="_blank" class="bap-term">geographical ranges substantially overlap, and coinfection can lead to substantial homologous recombination or equivalent reassortment with high likelihood of viable outcomes.

Discussion

<p>If phages should be incapable of genetic recombination, then their populations in general would be defined similarly to that of purely clonal organisms.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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