Luis Molina-Carrillo

Differential gene expression in red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) hyperparasitized by bacteriophage pCXc provides insights into the potential role of bacteriophages in Withering Syndrome dynamics.

Withering syndrome (WS) is a chronic disease of abalones caused by the intracellular bacterium Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis (CXc), which is itself susceptible to infection by the bacteriophage hyperparasite (pCXc). However, the relationship between phage hyperparasitism, host transcriptional responses and dis...