[HTML][HTML] New insights into intestinal phages

R Sausset, MA Petit, V Gaboriau-Routhiau… - Mucosal …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The intestinal microbiota plays important roles in human health. This last decade, the viral
fraction of the intestinal microbiota, composed essentially of phages that infect bacteria …

Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174

PC Kirchberger, H Ochman - Annual Review of Virology, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Two decades of metagenomic analyses have revealed that in many environments, small (∼
5 kb), single-stranded DNA phages of the family Microviridae dominate the virome. Although …

Organizing the global diversity of microviruses

PC Kirchberger, ZA Martinez, H Ochman - Mbio, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
Microviruses encompass an astonishing array of small, single-stranded DNA phages that,
due to the surge in metagenomic surveys, are now known to be prevalent in most …

Dynamic marine viral infections and major contribution to photosynthetic processes shown by spatiotemporal picoplankton metatranscriptomes

ET Sieradzki, JC Ignacio-Espinoza… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Viruses provide top-down control on microbial communities, yet their direct study in natural
environments was hindered by culture limitations. The advance of bioinformatics enables …

Reekeekee- and roodoodooviruses, two different Microviridae clades constituted by the smallest DNA phages

E Olo Ndela, S Roux, C Henke, A Sczyrba… - Virus …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Small circular single-stranded DNA viruses of the Microviridae family are both prevalent and
diverse in all ecosystems. They usually harbor a genome between 4.3 and 6.3 kb, with a …

[HTML][HTML] Prophage Genomics and Ecology in the Family Rhodobacteraceae

K Forcone, FH Coutinho, GS Cavalcanti, CB Silveira - Microorganisms, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Roseobacters are globally abundant bacteria with critical roles in carbon and sulfur
biogeochemical cycling. Here, we identified 173 new putative prophages in 79 genomes of …

Prophage Tracer: precisely tracing prophages in prokaryotic genomes using overlap** split-read alignment

K Tang, W Wang, Y Sun, Y Zhou, P Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The life cycle of temperate phages includes a lysogenic cycle stage when the phage
integrates into the host genome and becomes a prophage. However, the identification of …

Resurrection of a global, metagenomically defined gokushovirus

PC Kirchberger, H Ochman - Elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
Gokushoviruses are single-stranded, circular DNA bacteriophages found in metagenomic
datasets from diverse ecosystems worldwide, including human gut microbiomes. Despite …

Diverse microviruses circulating in invertebrates within a lake ecosystem

MC Lund, A Hopkins, A Dayaram… - Journal of General …, 2024‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
Microviruses are single-stranded DNA bacteriophages and members of the highly diverse
viral family Microviridae. Microviruses have a seemingly ubiquitous presence across animal …