View Item 
        •   Utrecht University Student Theses Repository Home
        • UU Theses Repository
        • Theses
        • View Item
        •   Utrecht University Student Theses Repository Home
        • UU Theses Repository
        • Theses
        • View Item
        JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

        Browse

        All of UU Student Theses RepositoryBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

        Fitness in bacteriophages

        Thumbnail
        View/Open
        Ramona Mogling 3444619.pdf (898.2Kb)
        Publication date
        2011
        Author
        Mögling, R.
        Metadata
        Show full item record
        Summary
        Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Since their first description in 1915 a myriad of studies investigating numerous topics of molecular biology were carried out using bacteriophages. In addition to groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of genetics and virology, bacteriophages were also used to investigate the role of mutations and their influence on fitness and evolutionary progress. The purpose of this review is to give an overview of the insights gained about fitness studies in bacteriophages, particularly focusing on fitness studies using the plaque assay technique and mathematical modelling on the propagation velocity of said plaques, as well as direct comparisons of fitness by competition assays of different phages. Furthermore, discrete episodes of the phage life cycle shall be analysed in the context of fitness states.
        URI
        https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/8484
        Collections
        • Theses
        Utrecht university logo