Ecological ubiquity and phylogeny drive nestedness in phages-bacteria networks and shape the bacterial defensome.

PLoS Pathog · 2025 · PMC12782414 · PMID 41468513

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highly significantp < 0.01actually significant

Nestedness was highly significant (p < 0.01) against nearly all null models, except null model B, which was shown to be excessively conservative [ 30 ].

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approached significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, none of these factors significantly affected the total number of defence systems, although the effect of phylogroup approached significance (GLM: p = 0.06) ( Fig 2B ).

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