Temperate phages are pervasive in nature, existing within bacterial cells in a form known as
prophages. In this state, survival of the phage is intricately tied to the survival of the bacterial …

Bacteria-infecting viruses (phages) and their hosts maintain an ancient and complex
relationship. Bacterial predation by lytic phages drives an ongoing phage-host arms race …

Temperate phages are pervasive in bacterial genomes, existing as vertically inherited
islands termed prophages. Prophages are vulnerable to predation of their host bacterium by …

Soil is known to harbor viruses, but the majority are uncharacterized and their responses to
environmental changes are unknown. Here, we used a multi-omics approach …

Bacteriophages are key components of gut microbiomes, yet the phage colonization process
in the infant gut remains uncertain. Here, we establish a large phage sequence database …

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and archaea and are classified as virulent or
temperate phages based on their life cycles. A temperate phage, also known as a lysogenic …

The gut virome is an incredibly complex part of the gut ecosystem. Gut viruses play a role in
many disease states, but it is unknown to what extent the gut virome impacts everyday …

The formation of membrane vesicles (MVs) by Gram-positive bacteria has gained increasing
attention over the last decade. Recently, models of vesicle formation have been proposed …

Almost a century has elapsed since the discovery of bacteriophages (phages), and 85 years
have passed since the emergence of evidence that phages can infect starter cultures …

Bacteriophages (phages) are the most abundant biological entity in the human body, but
until recently the role that phages play in human health was not well characterized. Although …