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Metavir 2: new tools for viral metagenome comparison and assembled virome analysis

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Virus World as an Evolutionary Network of Viruses and Capsidless Selfish Elements

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Bacterial transformation: distribution, shared mechanisms and divergent control

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A widespread bacteriophage abortive infection system functions through a Type IV toxin–antitoxin mechanism

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Pervasive domestication of defective prophages by bacteria

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Bacterial Vesicles in Marine Ecosystems

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The Characterization of RNA Viruses in Tropical Seawater Using Targeted PCR and Metagenomics

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Comparative genomics of defense systems in archaea and bacteria

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To be or not to be: regulation of restriction–modification systems and other toxin–antitoxin systems

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A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

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Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes

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Live virus-free or die: coupling of antivirus immunity and programmed suicide or dormancy in prokaryotes

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Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery

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Two Programmed Cell Death Systems in Escherichia coli: An Apoptotic-Like Death Is Inhibited by the mazEF-Mediated Death Pathway

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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Bacteria and Archaea

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Prevalence and Significance of Plasmid Maintenance Functions in the Virulence Plasmids of Pathogenic Bacteria

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Mainstreams of Horizontal Gene Exchange in Enterobacteria: Consideration of the Outbreak of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli O104:H4 in Germany in 2011

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Exploring the viral world through metagenomics

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Toxin–antitoxin systems: why so many, what for?

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Conflicts Targeting Epigenetic Systems and Their Resolution by Cell Death: Novel Concepts for Methyl-Specific and Other Restriction Systems

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A Unique Group of Virus-Related, Genome-Integrating Elements Found Solely in the Bacterial Family Thermaceae and the Archaeal Family Halobacteriaceae

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Genome comparison and context analysis reveals putative mobile forms of restriction–modification systems and related rearrangements

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Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments

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The Great Billion-year War between Ribosome- and Capsid-encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties

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Viruses are essential agents within the roots and stem of the tree of life

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The Closest Relatives of Icosahedral Viruses of Thermophilic Bacteria Are among Viruses and Plasmids of the Halophilic Archaea

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New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

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Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems

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Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus

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Extra-chromosomal elements and the evolution of cellular DNA replication machineries

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Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

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Phages across the biosphere: contrasts of viruses in soil and aquatic environments

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