Bacteriophages have a wide range of applications such as combating antibiotic resistance,
preventing food contamination for food safety, and as biomarkers to indirectly assess the …

Bacteriophages of thermophiles are of increasing interest owing to their important roles in
many biogeochemical, ecological processes and in biotechnology applications, including …

Prokaryotes encode an arsenal of highly diverse immune systems to protect themselves
against invading nucleic acids such as viruses, plasmids and transposons. This includes …

Viruses have developed sophisticated biochemical and genetic mechanisms to manipulate
and exploit their hosts. Enzymes derived from viruses have been essential research tools …

Viruses are nonliving biological entities whose host range encompasses all known forms of
life. They are deceptively simple in description (a protein shell surrounding genetic material …

Researchers have recently renewed interest in bacteriophages. Being valuable models for
the study of eukaryotic viruses, and more importantly, natural killers of bacteria …

Viruses are the most prodigious repertory of the genetic material on the earth. They are
elusive, breakneck, evolutionary life particles that constitute a riveting concealed world …

The microbial community in seriously contaminated environment were not well known. This
research investigated the community reassemblies in microcosms made of two distinct …

While bacteriophages have previously been used as a model system to understand thermal
adaptation, most adapted genomes observed to date contain very few modifications and …

The Cas1 protein is essential for the functioning of CRISPR-Cas adaptive systems.
However, despite the high prevalence of CRISPR-Cas systems in thermophilic …