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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Biol. 2013 Mar 15;10(2):10.1088/1478-3975/10/2/025004. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/2/025004

Figure 3.

Figure 3

In the Markov process, five categories of transition events change the state of the system. The rates of all of these events are denoted by φi. Processes 2, 3, and 5 all result from phages infecting the bacteria. Processes 4 results from phage infecting some bacteria, which could be the population under study, or a different host population of bacteria. There is an additional category of events, not shown in this figure, which is evolution of the virus due to mutation or recombination.