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Jun 4, 2018 · Bacteriophages (that is, phages: viruses that infect bacteria) are highly abundant and are known to play critical roles in bacterial mortality, biogeochemical cycling and horizontal gene transfer.
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Feb 5, 2020 · The results showed that the increase in microbial densities that occurs during coral reef degradation is associated with a change in the genomic repertoire of bacteriophages, specifically in the diversity and distribution of bacterial virulence genes.
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Dec 1, 2022 · Using lessons learned from the latest metagenomic studies, we focus on two explicit aspects of the role bacteriophages play within the microbiome, their ecological role in structuring bacterial populations, and their contribution to microbiome functioning by encoding auxiliary metabolism genes.
Jan 26, 2023 · Most marine viruses are thought to be bacteriophages, on which a substantial body of work in aquatic virology has focused. However, there is increasing evidence of the evolutionary diversity and abundance of marine eukaryotic viruses, from the smallest single stranded RNA virus containing a handful of genes [ 5 ] to giant double stranded DNA ...
Dec 1, 2020 · The concept of phage therapy as a fundamental application of bacteriophages is deeply relying on the facts of their host specificity, abundance in the environment with limited ecological impact.
Through phage infection, horizontal gene transfer, and inducement of bacterial phage-resistant muta-tions, marine viroplankton play important roles in regulating microbial population sizes, community structure and diver-sity.
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Oct 20, 2021 · Megaphages, bacteriophages harbouring extremely large genomes, have recently been found to be ubiquitous, being described from a variety of microbiomes ranging from the animal gut to soil and...
