Kinda cool: see http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/74/14/4256 Spontaneous Deletion of a 209-Kilobase-Pair Fragment from the Escherichia coli Genome Occurs with Acquisition of Resistance to an Assortment of Infectious Phages Yasunori Tanji,* Kenji Hattori, Kohichi Suzuki, and Kazuhiko Miyanaga
