Jamison K. Walker

Nov 29, 2023 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jamison K. Walker |Sandra Hope |Brigham Young

Keywordsevolution, host range, phagesDepartmentMicrobiology and Molecular BiologyAbstractMy project proposal included the use of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection to determine if genetic mutations will arise in Bacteriophages that would allow them to infect related strains in a species of bacteria. Bacteriophages naturally have a target host range that they can infect. Within species of bacteria, the phage has tail receptors that allow it to infect specific strains.