Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

RC Edgar, B Taylor, V Lin, T Altman, P Barbera… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their
systematic exploration has been inhibited by a lack of efficient methods for searching this …

A new family of “megaphages” abundant in the marine environment

S Michniewski, B Rihtman, R Cook… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Megaphages, bacteriophages harbouring extremely large genomes, have recently been
found to be ubiquitous, being described from a variety of microbiomes ranging from the …

Diverse ATPase proteins in mobilomes constitute a large potential sink for prokaryotic host ATP

H Shim, H Shivram, S Lei, JA Doudna… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Prokaryote mobilome genomes rely on host machineries for survival and replication. Given
that mobile genetic elements (MGEs) derive their energy from host cells, we investigated the …

Identification of a new family of “megaphages” that are abundant in the marine environment

S Michniewski, B Rihtman, R Cook, MA Jones… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Megaphages–bacteriophages harbouring extremely large genomes–have recently been
found to be ubiquitous, being described from a variety of microbiomes ranging from the …