[HTML][HTML] Bacteriophage lambda: Early pioneer and still relevant

SR Casjens, RW Hendrix - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular genetic research on bacteriophage lambda carried out during its golden age from
the mid-1950s to mid-1980s was critically important in the attainment of our current …

Exploring the costs of horizontal gene transfer

DA Baltrus - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most important evolutionary forces within
microbial populations. Although evidence for beneficial fitness effects of HGT is …

Seasonal time bombs: dominant temperate viruses affect Southern Ocean microbial dynamics

JR Brum, BL Hurwitz, O Schofield… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rapid warming in the highly productive western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region of the
Southern Ocean has affected multiple trophic levels, yet viral influences on microbial …

Prophages in marine bacteria: dangerous molecular time bombs or the key to survival in the seas?

JH Paul - The ISME journal, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Bacteriophages are realized to be numerous and important components of oceanic food
webs principally because of their lytic capabilities. The subtle changes that temperate …

Movers and shakers: influence of bacteriophages in shaping the mammalian gut microbiota

S Mills, F Shanahan, C Stanton, C Hill, A Coffey… - Gut …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The human intestinal microbiota is one of the most densely populated ecosystems on Earth,
containing up to 1013 bacteria/g and in some respects can be considered an organ itself …

The diverse impacts of phage morons on bacterial fitness and virulence

VL Taylor, AD Fitzpatrick, Z Islam, KL Maxwell - Advances in virus research, 2019 - Elsevier
The viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, are the most abundant biological entity on
earth. They play critical roles in controlling bacterial populations through phage-mediated …

Host-hijacking and planktonic piracy: how phages command the microbial high seas

J Warwick-Dugdale, HH Buchholz, MJ Allen… - Virology journal, 2019 - Springer
Microbial communities living in the oceans are major drivers of global biogeochemical
cycles. With nutrients limited across vast swathes of the ocean, marine microbes eke out a …

Construction of a prophage-free variant of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 for use as a platform strain for basic research and industrial biotechnology

M Baumgart, S Unthan, C Rückert… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
The activity of bacteriophages and phage-related mobile elements is a major source for
genome rearrangements and genetic instability of their bacterial hosts. The genome of the …

Phage-induced lysis enhances biofilm formation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

J Gödeke, K Paul, J Lassak, KM Thormann - The ISME journal, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is capable of forming highly structured surface-attached
communities. By DNase I treatment, we demonstrated that extracellular DNA (eDNA) serves …

[HTML][HTML] Protein aggregates encode epigenetic memory of stressful encounters in individual Escherichia coli cells

SK Govers, J Mortier, A Adam, A Aertsen - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Protein misfolding and aggregation are typically perceived as inevitable and detrimental
processes tied to a stress-or age-associated decline in cellular proteostasis. A careful …