Like a prophage being awakened from its slumber, the phage field has seen a lot of renewed activity during the last decade. Check out our new @natrevmicro.nature.com review on the temperate phage life cycle here to stay up-to-date 🧫🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The life cycle of temperate bacteriophages involves lytic or lysogenic cycles and has historically served as a model for studying genetic regulation. This Review provides an updated overview of these ...
Jakob T Rostøl
I had fun writing a short commentary on the importance of integrating prophage biology into microbiome research 🦠
Now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
#microbiomesky #phagesky
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
🌎 🧬 🖥️ logan-search.org the tool to query all SRA sequences (Dec 2023 snapshot) — just got major updates. Here's what's new. 🧵 1/12
I am hiring a Data Curator in my group nikolay-oskolkov.com/metabolic-re...! This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in multi-omics data analysis, exploratory (unsupervised) machine learning, and data management/curation. Apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/443793. Appreciate RT!
Are gut phages friends or foes?
A nice "forum" in Cell Host&Microbe by @naamagz.bsky.social discussing it's all about context. Depending on host inflammation and ecology, phages can shift between stabilizing and destabilizing our microbiome.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#phagesky
Prophages are pervasive in the human gut yet largely overlooked in microbiome research,
despite substantial functional potential. Emerging evidence indicates that prophages
regulate bacterial fitness,...
Beyond thrilled that our paper ‘Co-migration of hundreds of microbial species over metres drives selection and promotes non-motile hitchhikers’ has been accepted in Nature Communications! 🎉🦠 (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pleased to see this beautiful paper out. Kudos to @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social who took @stevenquistad.bsky.social data and dug deep, revealing a new phage that erupts to astonishing abundance. As theory predicts, the life of SGEs is fuelled by encounters with new hosts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gut bacteriophages defy simple classification as beneficial or harmful, instead shifting
between roles that stabilize or destabilize microbial communities depending on phage
lifestyle dynamics, host i...
Migration of microbial communities is poorly understood. Here, the authors use a meso-tube assay to show that hundreds of microbial species co-migrate over metre scales via chemotaxis, which restructu...
Viruses are highly abundant in the oceans, but there is one place you won't typically find them: in global ocean ecosystem models... until now.
Introducing "vDarwin", an explicit integration of viruses into the MITgcm/Darwin global ecosystem framework:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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