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Cryptic Cycling

Caption: The rotifer Brachionus exhibits regular cycles in abundance, but the alga Chlorella, on which it feeds, does not -- except in its genotype frequencies. The same occurs between the phage T4 and bacteria.

Credit: Photomicrograph: T. Yoshida and R. Wayne

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