Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems

AE Zimmerman, C Howard-Varona… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Ecosystems are controlled by 'bottom-up'(resources) and 'top-down'(predation) forces. Viral
infection is now recognized as a ubiquitous top-down control of microbial growth across …

[HTML][HTML] Formulation, stabilisation and encapsulation of bacteriophage for phage therapy

DJ Malik, IJ Sokolov, GK Vinner, F Mancuso… - Advances in colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Against a backdrop of global antibiotic resistance and increasing awareness of the
importance of the human microbiota, there has been resurgent interest in the potential use of …

Extensive gut virome variation and its associations with host and environmental factors in a population-level cohort

S Nishijima, N Nagata, Y Kiguchi, Y Kojima… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Indigenous bacteriophage communities (virome) in the human gut have a huge impact on
the structure and function of gut bacterial communities (bacteriome), but virome variation at a …

Phage lysis: multiple genes for multiple barriers

J Cahill, R Young - Advances in virus research, 2019 - Elsevier
The first steps in phage lysis involve a temporally controlled permeabilization of the
cytoplasmic membrane followed by enzymatic degradation of the peptidoglycan. For …

[图书][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012 - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Pharmacologically aware phage therapy: pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic obstacles to phage antibacterial action in animal and human bodies

K Dąbrowska, ST Abedon - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The use of viruses infecting bacteria (bacteriophages or phages) to treat bacterial infections
has been ongoing clinically for approximately 100 years. Despite that long history, the …

Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity

R Tian, D Ning, Z He, P Zhang, SJ Spencer, S Gao… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background The newly defined superphylum Patescibacteria such as Parcubacteria (OD1)
and Microgenomates (OP11) has been found to be prevalent in groundwater, sediment …

Marine viruses and global climate change

R Danovaro, C Corinaldesi, A Dell'Anno… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Sea-surface warming, sea-ice melting and related freshening, changes in circulation and
mixing regimes, and ocean acidification induced by the present climate changes are …

Bacteriophage Cocktail for the Prevention of Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa on Catheters in an In Vitro Model System

W Fu, T Forster, O Mayer, JJ Curtin… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microorganisms develop biofilms on indwelling medical devices and are associated with
device-related infections, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. This study …

Spatial mapping of mobile genetic elements and their bacterial hosts in complex microbiomes

B Grodner, H Shi, O Farchione, AC Vill, I Ntekas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The exchange of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) facilitates the spread of functional traits
including antimicrobial resistance within bacterial communities. Tools to spatially map MGEs …