{"id":114730,"date":"2020-10-19T22:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/crispr-induced-immune-diversification-in-host-virus-populations"},"modified":"2020-10-19T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:24:59","slug":"crispr-induced-immune-diversification-in-host-virus-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/crispr-induced-immune-diversification-in-host-virus-populations","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR-induced immune diversification in host-virus populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-induced-immune-diversification-in-host-virus-populations3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like humans, microbes have equipped themselves with tools to recognize and defend themselves against viral invaders. In a continual evolutionary battle between virus and host, CRISPR-Cas act as a major driving force of strain diversity in host-virus systems.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by Professor of Life Sciences Shai Pilosof (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel), Professor of Microbiology Rachel Whitaker (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Professor of Ecology and Evolution Mercedes Pascual (University of Chicago) highlights the role of diversified immunity in mediating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/host\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">host<\/a>-pathogen interactions and its eco-evolutionary dynamics. The study also included Professor of Bioengineering and Bliss Faculty Scholar Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sergio A. Alcal\u00b4a-Corona (University of Chicago), and Ph.D. graduate students Ted Kim and Tong Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were reported in the journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like humans, microbes have equipped themselves with tools to recognize and defend themselves against viral invaders. In a continual evolutionary battle between virus and host, CRISPR-Cas act as a major driving force of strain diversity in host-virus systems. A new study led by Professor of Life Sciences Shai Pilosof (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}