Vibrios are ubiquitous and abundant in the aquatic environment. A high abundance of
vibrios is also detected in tissues and/or organs of various marine algae and animals, eg …

Filamentous bacteriophage, long and thin filaments that are secreted from the host cells
without killing them, have been an antithesis to the standard view of head-and-tail bacterial …

Abstract Bacteriophage (“bacteria eaters”) or phage is the collective term for viruses that
infect bacteria. While most phages are pathogens that kill their bacterial hosts, the …

Phages are viruses that infect bacteria. They affect various microbe-mediated processes that
drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. Their influence depends on whether the …

Biofilm formation by Vibrio cholerae facilitates environmental persistence, and
hyperinfectivity within the host. Biofilm formation is regulated by 3', 5'-cyclic diguanylate (c-di …

Understanding the genetic and ecological factors which support the emergence of new
clones of pathogenic bacteria is vital to develop preventive measures. Vibrio cholerae the …

This review synthesizes recent and past observations on filamentous phages and describes
how these phages contribute to host phentoypes. For example, the CTXφ phage of Vibrio …

Prophages are known to encode important virulence factors in the human pathogen Vibrio
cholerae. However, little is known about the occurrence and composition of prophage …

In E. coli, 10 to 15% of growing bacteria produce dimeric chromosomes during DNA
replication. These dimers are resolved by XerC and XerD, two tyrosine recombinases that …

Four kinds of bacteriophage (φRSL, φRSA, φRSM and φRSS) were isolated from Ralstonia
solanacearum, a soil-borne Gram-negative bacterium that is the causative agent of bacterial …