Host-hijacking and planktonic piracy: how phages command the microbial high seas

Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts

(2018) Cristina Howard-Varona et al.   ISME Journal

A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus–host interactions in extreme environments

(2018) Jacob H. Munson-McGee et al.   ISME Journal

Rates of Mutation and Recombination in Siphoviridae Phage Genome Evolution over Three Decades

(2018) Anne Kupczok et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Limitations of Correlation-Based Inference in Complex Virus-Microbe Communities

(2018) Ashley R. Coenen et al.   mSystems

Discovery of several novel, widespread, and ecologically distinct marine Thaumarchaeota viruses that encode amoC nitrification genes

(2018) Nathan A. Ahlgren et al.   ISME Journal

Adaptation to sub-optimal hosts is a driver of viral diversification in the ocean

(2018) Hagay Enav et al.   Nature Communications

Ecological dynamics and co-occurrence among marine phytoplankton, bacteria and myoviruses shows microdiversity matters

(2017) David M Needham et al.   ISME Journal

Communication between viruses guides lysis–lysogeny decisions

(2017) Zohar Erez et al.   NATURE

Pseudomonas predators: understanding and exploiting phage–host interactions

(2017) Jeroen De Smet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ménage à trois in the human gut: interactions between host, bacteria and phages

(2017) Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Viruses Compensate for Microbial Metabolism in Virus-Host Interactions

(2017) Tianliang He et al.   mBio

Single-virus genomics reveals hidden cosmopolitan and abundant viruses

(2017) Francisco Martinez-Hernandez et al.   Nature Communications

Benchmarking viromics: an in silico evaluation of metagenome-enabled estimates of viral community composition and diversity

(2017) Simon Roux et al.   PeerJ

A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells

(2017) Svetlana Fridman et al.   Nature Microbiology

The first complete genome sequences of the acI lineage, the most abundant freshwater Actinobacteria, obtained by whole-genome-amplification of dilution-to-extinction cultures

(2017) Ilnam Kang et al.   Scientific Reports

Viral metabolic reprogramming in marine ecosystems

(2016) Bonnie L Hurwitz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Regulation of infection efficiency in a globally abundant marine Bacteriodetes virus

(2016) Cristina Howard-Varona et al.   ISME Journal

Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses

(2016) François Enault et al.   ISME Journal

High coverage metabolomics analysis reveals phage-specific alterations to Pseudomonas aeruginosa physiology during infection

(2016) Jeroen De Smet et al.   ISME Journal

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

(2016) Simon Roux et al.   NATURE

Alignment-free $d_2^*$ oligonucleotide frequency dissimilarity measure improves prediction of hosts from metagenomically-derived viral sequences

(2016) Nathan A. Ahlgren et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bacteriophage T4 Infection of Stationary Phase E. coli: Life after Log from a Phage Perspective

(2016) Daniel Bryan et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

(2016) Charles H. Wigington et al.   Nature Microbiology

Correction for Henson et al., Artificial Seawater Media Facilitate Cultivating Members of the Microbial Majority from the Gulf of Mexico

(2016) Michael W. Henson et al.   mSphere

A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes

(2015) Joshua S Weitz et al.   ISME Journal

Single-cell genomics-based analysis of virus–host interactions in marine surface bacterioplankton

(2015) Jessica M Labonté et al.   ISME Journal

Seasonal time bombs: dominant temperate viruses affect Southern Ocean microbial dynamics

(2015) Jennifer R Brum et al.   ISME Journal

Transcriptome dynamics of a broad host-range cyanophage and its hosts

(2015) Shany Doron et al.   ISME Journal

Rising to the challenge: accelerated pace of discovery transforms marine virology

(2015) Jennifer R. Brum et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A new perspective on lysogeny: prophages as active regulatory switches of bacteria

(2015) Ron Feiner et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

(2015) J. R. Brum et al.   SCIENCE

Combining genomic sequencing methods to explore viral diversity and reveal potential virus-host interactions

(2015) Cheryl-Emiliane T. Chow et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Host-dependent differences in abundance, composition and host range of cyanophages from the Red Sea

(2014) Naama P. Dekel-Bird et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Depth-stratified functional and taxonomic niche specialization in the ‘core’ and ‘flexible’ Pacific Ocean Virome

(2014) Bonnie L Hurwitz et al.   ISME Journal

Filamentous phages prevalent in Pseudoalteromonas spp. confer properties advantageous to host survival in Arctic sea ice

(2014) Zi-Chao Yu et al.   ISME Journal

Modeling ecological drivers in marine viral communities using comparative metagenomics and network analyses

(2014) B. L. Hurwitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sulfur Oxidation Genes in Diverse Deep-Sea Viruses

(2014) K. Anantharaman et al.   SCIENCE

Ecology and evolution of viruses infecting uncultivated SUP05 bacteria as revealed by single-cell- and meta-genomics

(2014) Simon Roux et al.   eLife

Genetic diversity in cultured and wild marine cyanomyoviruses reveals phosphorus stress as a strong selective agent

(2013) Libusha Kelly et al.   ISME Journal

The Pacific Ocean Virome (POV): A Marine Viral Metagenomic Dataset and Associated Protein Clusters for Quantitative Viral Ecology

(2013) Bonnie L. Hurwitz et al.   PLoS One

Genome of a SAR116 bacteriophage shows the prevalence of this phage type in the oceans

(2013) I. Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novel Quorum-Sensing Peptides Mediating Interspecies Bacterial Cell Death

(2013) S. Kumar et al.   mBio

Assessment of viral community functional potential from viral metagenomes may be hampered by contamination with cellular sequences

(2013) S. Roux et al.   Open Biology

Metabolic reprogramming by viruses in the sunlit and dark ocean

(2013) Bonnie L Hurwitz et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Prophage Excision Activates Listeria Competence Genes that Promote Phagosomal Escape and Virulence

(2012) Lev Rabinovich et al.   CELL

Marine Viruses Exploit Their Host's Two-Component Regulatory System in Response to Resource Limitation

(2012) Qinglu Zeng et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Links between viruses and prokaryotes throughout the water column along a North Atlantic latitudinal transect

(2012) Daniele De Corte et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial ecology of expanding oxygen minimum zones

(2012) Jody J. Wright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Seasonality in Ocean Microbial Communities

(2012) S. J. Giovannoni et al.   SCIENCE

Marine Viruses: Truth or Dare

(2011) Mya Breitbart   Annual Review of Marine Science

Development ofphoHas a Novel Signature Gene for Assessing Marine Phage Diversity

(2011) Dawn B. Goldsmith et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic analysis of oceanic cyanobacterial myoviruses compared with T4-like myoviruses from diverse hosts and environments

(2010) Matthew B. Sullivan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ecogenomics and genome landscapes of marine Pseudoalteromonas phage H105/1

(2010) Melissa Beth Duhaime et al.   ISME Journal

Bacteriophages drive strain diversification in a marineFlavobacterium: implications for phage resistance and physiological properties

(2009) Mathias Middelboe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carrying photosynthesis genes increases ecological fitness of cyanophagein silico

(2009) Ferdi L. Hellweger   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microarray analysis of phosphate regulation in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8102

(2009) Sasha G Tetu et al.   ISME Journal

Seasonality and vertical structure of microbial communities in an ocean gyre

(2009) Alexander H Treusch et al.   ISME Journal

Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes

(2009) Itai Sharon et al.   NATURE

The phage abortive infection system, ToxIN, functions as a protein–RNA toxin–antitoxin pair

(2009) Peter C. Fineran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Escherichia coli MazF Leads to the Simultaneous Selective Synthesis of Both “Death Proteins” and “Survival Proteins”

(2009) Shahar Amitai et al.   PLoS Genetics

Transport functions dominate the SAR11 metaproteome at low-nutrient extremes in the Sargasso Sea

(2008) Sarah M Sowell et al.   ISME Journal

Prophages in marine bacteria: dangerous molecular time bombs or the key to survival in the seas?

(2008) John H Paul   ISME Journal

Evidence for the Intense Exchange of MazG in Marine Cyanophages by Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2008) Michael J. Bryan et al.   PLoS One

Modeling the Fitness Consequences of a Cyanophage-Encoded Photosynthesis Gene

(2008) Jason G. Bragg et al.   PLoS One

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE