Fig. 3: Culture dynamics reflect temperate rather than virulent infection.
From: Temperate infection in a virus–host system previously known for virulent dynamics
Empirical data for E. huxleyi cell densities (lines of best fit from Fig. 1a) and theoretical predictions from virulence (open circles) and phenomenological temperate (black circles) models across initial host densities from a 101–102 (blue), b 102–103 (light blue), c 103–104 (gray), d 104–105 (pink), and e 105–106 (red) host cells per milliliter in uninfected, 10:1 virus:host multiplicity of infection (MOI) co-incubations, and pre-infected hosts without or with extracellular virus treatments are shown. Empirical lines of best fit from Fig. 1a are colored by initial host density as presented in Fig. 1. Model-predicted extinct host populations where host densities fell ≤1 cell per milliliter are shown on the dashed horizontal lines. Difference in akaike information criterion (ΔAIC; AICtemperate – AICvirulent) and mean absolute error (ΔMAE; MAEtemperate – MAEvirulent; log10) between models are shown, where negative values indicate that temperate models fit empirical data (Fig. 1a) better than virulent models despite being penalized for having extra parameters. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
