Bacterial viruses communicate and engage in information warfare, two Cell studies reveal
Bacterial viruses can send and receive signals to inform critical decisions. In this issue of Cell, Manley et al. and Gallego-del-Sol et al. independently identify crosstalk between bacterial…
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