We commonly acknowledge that bacterial viruses (phages) shape the composition and
evolution of bacterial communities in nature and therefore have important roles in ecosystem …

The gut microbiome is widely accepted to have a significant impact on human health yet,
despite years of research on this complex ecosystem, the contributions of different forces …

Climate change is expected to have a drastic effect on aquaculture worldwide. As we move
forward with the agenda to increase and diversify aquaculture production, rising …

Bacteriophages can influence the abundance, diversity, and evolution of bacterial
communities. Several bacteriophages have been reported to add virulence factors to their …

Antibiotics have been a panacea in animal husbandry as well as in human therapy for
decades. The huge amount of antibiotics used to induce the growth and protect the health of …

As zoonotic pathogens are threatening public health globally, the virulence factor genes
(VFGs) they carry underlie latent risk in the environment. However, profiling VFGs in the …

Phage therapy; a revived antimicrobial weapon, has great therapeutic advantages with the
main ones being its ability to eradicate multidrug-resistant pathogens as well as selective …

Parasites provide a selective pressure during the evolution of their hosts, and mediate a
range of effects on ecological communities. Due to their short generation time, host-parasite …

Bacteriophages (phages or bacterial viruses) are the most abundant biological entities in
our planet; their influence reaches far beyond the microorganisms they parasitize. Phages …

Bacteria develop a broad range of phage resistance mechanisms, such as prevention of
phage adsorption and CRISPR/Cas system, to survive phage predation. In this study …