adding my sincere appreciation for this thread and a recent article of ours where TFP play a key role as phage receptor 😉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitnessKubota et al. show that bacteria can use their filamentous phage to outcompete other
bacteria, but increased phage production enables the evolution of cheater miniphages
with truncated genomes. Miniph...www.cell.com