Metabolic genes within cyanophage genomes: implications for diversity and evolution

EB Gao, Y Huang, D Ning - Genes, 2016 - mdpi.com
Cyanophages, a group of viruses specifically infecting cyanobacteria, are genetically
diverse and extensively abundant in water environments. As a result of selective pressure …

Viruses inhibit CO2 fixation in the most abundant phototrophs on Earth

RJ Puxty, AD Millard, DJ Evans, DJ Scanlan - Current biology, 2016 - cell.com
Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the most
numerous photosynthetic organisms on our planet [1, 2]. With a global population size of …

Genetic engineering of marine cyanophages reveals integration but not lysogeny in T7-like cyanophages

D Shitrit, T Hackl, R Laurenceau, N Raho… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Marine cyanobacteria of the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus are the most
abundant photosynthetic organisms on earth, spanning vast regions of the oceans and …

Energy limitation of cyanophage development: implications for marine carbon cycling

RJ Puxty, DJ Evans, AD Millard, DJ Scanlan - The ISME Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Marine cyanobacteria are responsible for~ 25% of the fixed carbon that enters the ocean
biosphere. It is thought that abundant co-occurring viruses play an important role in …

Assessing Illumina technology for the high-throughput sequencing of bacteriophage genomes

B Rihtman, S Meaden, MRJ Clokie, B Koskella… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities on the planet, playing crucial roles
in the shaping of bacterial populations. Phages have smaller genomes than their bacterial …

Molecular evidence of parallel evolution in a cyanophage

J Tjendra, JE Storesund, H Dahle, RA Sandaa, S Våge - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Antagonistic interactions between bacteriophage (phage) and its bacterial host drives the
continual selection for resistance and counter-defence. To date, much remains unknown …

Coordinated transcriptional response to environmental stress by a Synechococcus virus

B Rihtman, A Torcello-Requena, A Mikhaylina… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Viruses are a major control on populations of microbes. Often, their virulence is examined in
controlled laboratory conditions. Yet, in nature, environmental conditions lead to changes in …

Cyanophage host‐derived genes reflect contrasting selective pressures with depth in the oxic and anoxic water column of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific

CA Fuchsman, MCG Carlson… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanophages encode host‐derived genes that may increase their fitness. We examined the
relative abundance of 18 host‐derived cyanophages genes in metagenomes and viromes …

A virophage cross-species infection through mutant selection represses giant virus propagation, promoting host cell survival

S Mougari, N Chelkha, D Sahmi-Bounsiar… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Virus adaptation to new hosts is a major cause of infectious disease emergence. This
mechanism has been intensively studied in the context of zoonotic virus spillover, due to its …

Detection of bacteriophages: sequence-based systems

SV Owen, BM Perez-Sepulveda… - Bacteriophages: biology …, 2021 - Springer
The invention of sequencing technologies has fundamentally changed molecular biology,
including the way we look at bacteriophages. In addition to investigating bacteriophage …