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 …

Bacteriophages (phages) are often described as obligate predators of their bacterial hosts,
and phage predation is one of the leading forces controlling the density and distribution of …

Characterizing complex microbial communities with single-cell resolution has been a long-
standing goal of microbiology. We present Microbe-seq, a high-throughput method that …

Many microbes in nature reside in dense, metabolically interdependent communities. We
investigated the nature and extent of microbe-virus interactions in relation to microbial …

Viruses that infect microbial hosts have traditionally been studied in laboratory settings with
a focus on either obligate lysis or persistent lysogeny. In the environment, these infection …

Microbial culturing and meta-omic profiling technologies have significantly advanced our
understanding of the taxonomic and functional variation of the human microbiome and its …

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 …

There is significant interest in altering the course of cardiometabolic disease development
via gut microbiomes. Nevertheless, the highly abundant phage members of the complex gut …

Viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages or phage) have broad effects on bacterial ecology and
evolution in nature that mediate microbial interactions, shape bacterial diversity, and …

Microbial communities are shaped by viral predators. Yet, resolving which viruses (phages)
and bacteria are interacting is a major challenge in the context of natural levels of microbial …