Soil viruses are highly abundant and have important roles in the regulation of host dynamics
and soil ecology. Climate change is resulting in unprecedented changes to soil ecosystems …

The current problems with increasing bacterial resistance to antibacterial therapies, resulting
in a growing frequency of incurable bacterial infections, necessitates the acceleration of …

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago.
Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have …

Viruses are integral components of all ecosystems and microbiomes on Earth. Through
pervasive infections of their cellular hosts, viruses can reshape microbial community …

The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …

Bacteriophages, the viruses infecting bacteria, hold great potential for the treatment of
multidrug-resistant bacterial infections and other applications due to their unparalleled …

The qualified presumption of safety (QPS) provides a generic pre‐assessment of the safety
of microorganisms intended for use in the food or feed chains, to support the work of EFSA's …

The mammalian virome has been linked to health and disease but our understanding of how
it is structured along the longitudinal axis of the mammalian gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and …

Bacteriophages are abundant in soils. However, the majority are uncharacterized, and their
hosts are unknown. Here, we apply high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi …

Technological advances in cryo-EM in recent years have given rise to detailed atomic
structures of bacteriophage tail tubes—a class of filamentous protein assemblies that could …