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 …

Bacteriophages (phages) are biological entities that have attracted a great deal of attention
in recent years. They have been reported as the most abundant biological entities on the …

Background Viral-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) are important toolkits for
modulating their hosts' metabolisms and the microbial-driven biogeochemical cycles …

The substrates of the Brazilian campos rupestre s, a grassland ecosystem, have extremely
low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen, imposing restrictions to plant growth …

Viruses are ubiquitous in the oceans, exhibiting high abundance and diversity. Here, we
systematically analyze existing genomic sequences of marine prokaryotes to compile a …

Background Microbe–virus interactions have broad implications on the composition,
function, and evolution of microbiomes. Elucidating the effects of environmental stresses on …

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 …

Microbial sulfur metabolism contributes to biogeochemical cycling on global scales. Sulfur
metabolizing microbes are infected by phages that can encode auxiliary metabolic genes …

Highlights•Phages use structurally diverse receptor binding proteins (RBPs) to target
different cell wall structures.•RBPs play a critical role in spatial and temporal positioning of …

The archaeal tailed viruses (arTV), evolutionarily related to tailed double-stranded DNA
(dsDNA) bacteriophages of the class Caudoviricetes, represent the most common isolates …