Interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments

A Chevallereau, BJ Pons, S van Houte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
We commonly acknowledge that bacterial viruses (phages) shape the composition and
evolution of bacterial communities in nature and therefore have important roles in ecosystem …

Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny

MB Dion, F Oechslin, S Moineau - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an
unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

The microbiota-gut-brain axis

JF Cryan, KJ O'Riordan, CSM Cowan… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
I. INTRODUCTION 1877 II. STUDYING THE... 1881 III. MICROBIOTA-GUT-BRAIN AXIS...
1907 IV. PATHWAYS OF COMMUNICATION 1911 V. MICROBIOTA AND SYNAPTIC... 1929 …

Phage-plasmids spread antibiotic resistance genes through infection and lysogenic conversion

E Pfeifer, RA Bonnin, EPC Rocha - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antibiotic resistance is rapidly spreading via the horizontal transfer of resistance genes in
mobile genetic elements. While plasmids are key drivers of this process, few integrative …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into intestinal phages

R Sausset, MA Petit, V Gaboriau-Routhiau… - Mucosal …, 2020 - Elsevier
The intestinal microbiota plays important roles in human health. This last decade, the viral
fraction of the intestinal microbiota, composed essentially of phages that infect bacteria …

Horizontal gene transfer among host-associated microbes

JM de Sousa, M Lourenço, I Gordo - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Horizontal gene transfer is an important evolutionary force, facilitating bacterial diversity. It is
thought to be pervasive in host-associated microbiomes, where bacterial densities are high …

A systematic analysis of marine lysogens and proviruses

Y Yi, S Liu, Y Hao, Q Sun, X Lei, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Viruses are ubiquitous in the oceans, exhibiting high abundance and diversity. Here, we
systematically analyze existing genomic sequences of marine prokaryotes to compile a …

Phages and their potential to modulate the microbiome and immunity

S Federici, SP Nobs, E Elinav - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Bacteriophages (hence termed phages) are viruses that target bacteria and have long been
considered as potential future treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection …

Phage-host interactions: the neglected part of biological wastewater treatment

X Tang, C Fan, G Zeng, L Zhong, C Li, X Ren, B Song… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), the stable operation of biological wastewater
treatment is strongly dependent on the stability of associated microbiota. Bacteriophages …