Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities

IL Brito - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Bacteria acquire novel DNA through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a process that enables
an organism to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions, provides a competitive …

Global overview and major challenges of host prediction methods for uncultivated phages

C Coclet, S Roux - Current Opinion in Virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Global phage diversity is now primarily explored through cultivation-independent
metagenomics.•Metagenome-derived phages are typically linked to their host (s) via in silico …

iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Microbial ecology of oxygen minimum zones amidst ocean deoxygenation

AM Long, SK Jurgensen, AR Petchel… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) have substantial effects on the global ecology and
biogeochemical processes of marine microbes. However, the diversity and activity of OMZ …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging technologies in the study of the virome

SE Smith, W Huang, K Tiamani, M Unterer… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•New amplification methods reduce biases caused by whole genome
amplification•Biases caused by assembly can be avoided using long-read …

RNA-Seq Transcriptome Analysis Provides Candidate Genes for Resistance to Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus in Melon

C Sáez, A Flores-León, J Montero-Pau… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV) emerged in the Mediterranean Basin in 2012
as the first DNA bipartite begomovirus (Geminiviridae family), causing severe yield and …

Viruses in marine invertebrate holobionts: Complex interactions between phages and bacterial symbionts

K Zhou, T Zhang, XW Chen, Y Xu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Marine invertebrates are ecologically and economically important and have formed
holobionts by evolving symbiotic relationships with cellular and acellular microorganisms …

Host prediction for disease-associated gastrointestinal cressdnaviruses

CM Kinsella, M Deijs, C Becker, P Broekhuizen… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic techniques have facilitated the discovery of thousands of viruses, yet because
samples are often highly biodiverse, fundamental data on the specific cellular hosts are …

iPHoP: an integrated machine-learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-assembled virus genomes

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Fishing for phages in metagenomes: what do we catch, what do we miss?

S Benler, EV Koonin - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics have become the principal approaches for
discovery of novel bacteriophages and preliminary characterization of their ecology and …