While often obvious for macroscopic organisms, determining whether a microbe is dead or
alive is fraught with complications. Fields such as microbial ecology, environmental health …

Bacteriophages are among the most abundant and diverse biological units in the biosphere.
They have contributed to our understanding of the central dogma of biology and have been …

The microbiota–gut–brain axis has been shown to play an important role in the stress
response, but previous work has focused primarily on the role of the bacteriome. The gut …

Background Microbe–virus interactions have broad implications on the composition,
function, and evolution of microbiomes. Elucidating the effects of environmental stresses on …

Bacteriophages (phages) are bacterial viruses that have been shown to shape microbial
communities. Previous studies have shown that faecal virome transplantation can decrease …

Emerging evidence from genomics gives us a glimpse into the potential contribution of
lysogenic bacteriophages (phages) to the environmental adaptability of their hosts …

This collection of laboratory protocols describes the steps to collect viruses from various
samples with the specific aim of generating viral metagenome sequence libraries (viromes) …

Microbes drive ecosystems under constraints imposed by viruses. However, a lack of virus
genome information hinders our ability to answer fundamental, biological questions …

Virophages are small double stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that can only replicate in a host
by co-infecting with another virus. Marine algae are commonly associated with virophage …

Microbial activities that affect global oceanographic and atmospheric processes happen
throughout the water column, yet the long-term ecological dynamics of microbes have been …