Bacteriophages (phages) are biological entities that have attracted a great deal of attention
in recent years. They have been reported as the most abundant biological entities on the …

Viral abundance in soils can range from below detection limits in hot deserts to over 1 billion
per gram in wetlands. Abundance appears to be strongly influenced by water availability …

Background: With advances in sequencing technology and decreasing costs, the number of
phage genomes that have been sequenced has increased markedly in the past decade …

Bacteriophages (or phages), which infect bacteria, have two distinct lifestyles: virulent and
temperate. Predicting the lifestyle of phages helps decipher their interactions with their …

Bacteriophages play key roles in microbial evolution 1, 2, marine nutrient cycling 3 and
human disease 4. Phages are genetically diverse, and their genome architectures are …

Viruses play an important role in the ecology and biogeochemistry of marine ecosystems.
Beyond mortality and gene transfer, viruses can reprogram microbial metabolism during …

Motivation Bacteriophages (aka phages), which mainly infect bacteria, play key roles in the
biology of microbes. As the most abundant biological entities on the planet, the number of …

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. After their discovery in the early 1900s,
bacteriophages were a primary cure against infectious disease for almost 25 years, before …

Bacterial viruses are the most abundant biological entities in soil ecosystems. Owing to the
advent of metagenomics and viromics approaches, an ever‐increasing diversity of virus …

DNA can be preserved in marine and freshwater sediments both in bulk sediment and in
intact, viable resting stages. Here, we assess the potential for combined use of ancient …