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A phage satellite tunes inducing phage gene expression using a domesticated endonuclease to balance inhibition and virion hijacking

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Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation

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Shape shifter: redirection of prolate phage capsid assembly by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands

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Beyond the CRISPR-Cas safeguard: PICI-encoded innate immune systems protect bacteria from bacteriophage predation

(2020) Alfred Fillol-Salom et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

ClipKIT: A multiple sequence alignment trimming software for accurate phylogenomic inference

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Hijacking the Hijackers: Escherichia coli Pathogenicity Islands Redirect Helper Phage Packaging for Their Own Benefit

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Evolutionary entanglement of mobile genetic elements and host defence systems: guns for hire

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Phage-inducible chromosomal islands are ubiquitous within the bacterial universe

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MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets

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A highly specific phage defense system is a conserved feature of the Vibrio cholerae mobilome

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Competing scaffolding proteins determine capsid size during mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands

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Scarless deletion of up to seven methyl-accepting chemotaxis genes with an optimized method highlights key function of CheM in Salmonella Typhimurium

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Convergent evolution of pathogenicity islands in helpercosphage interference

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Pathogenicity Island-Directed Transfer of Unlinked Chromosomal Virulence Genes

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Virus Satellites Drive Viral Evolution and Ecology

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The Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands: A Family of Highly Evolved Molecular Parasites

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IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

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HNH proteins are a widespread component of phage DNA packaging machines

(2014) S. Kala et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Precisely modulated pathogenicity island interference with late phage gene transcription

(2014) Geeta Ram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Staphylococcal pathogenicity island DNA packaging system involving cos-site packaging and phage-encoded HNH endonucleases

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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

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Enterococcus faecalis Prophage Dynamics and Contributions to Pathogenic Traits

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NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Staphylococcal pathogenicity island interference with helper phage reproduction is a paradigm of molecular parasitism

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Pirates of the Caudovirales

(2012) Gail E. Christie et al.   VIROLOGY

Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

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Rapid and Highly Efficient Method for Scarless Mutagenesis within the Salmonella enterica Chromosome

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Genetic reductionist approach for dissecting individual roles of GGDEF proteins within the c-di-GMP signaling network in Salmonella

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

The Defective Prophage Pool of Escherichia coli O157: Prophage–Prophage Interactions Potentiate Horizontal Transfer of Virulence Determinants

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