Microbial communities are shaped by viral predators. Yet, resolving which viruses (phages)
and bacteria are interacting is a major challenge in the context of natural levels of microbial …

Metagenomic approaches applied to viruses have highlighted their prevalence in almost all
microbial ecosystems investigated. In all ecosystems, notably those associated with humans …

The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

Viral infections dynamically alter the composition and metabolic potential of marine
microbial communities and the evolutionary trajectories of host populations with resulting …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and are believed to be the most
abundant and genetically diverse organisms on Earth. As such, their ecology is vast both in …

Microbes drive the biogeochemical cycles that fuel planet E arth, and their viruses (phages)
alter microbial population structure, genome repertoire, and metabolic capacity. However …

Bacteria-phage symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and serve as valuable biological
models. Historically, the ecology and evolution of bacteria-phage systems have been …

Phages, viruses of bacteria, are ubiquitous. Many phages require host cell death to
successfully complete their life cycle, resulting in reciprocal evolution of bacterial resistance …

It is increasingly apparent that the dynamic microbial communities of long-lived hosts affect
their phenotype, including resistance to disease [1–3]. The host microbiota will change over …

Background Bacteriophages, the viruses infecting bacteria, are biological entities that can
control their host populations. The ecological relevance of phages for microbial systems has …