The host range of a bacteriophage is the taxonomic diversity of hosts it can successfully
infect. Host range, one of the central traits to understand in phages, is determined by a range …

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 …

Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

Viruses significantly influence local and global biogeochemical cycles and help bacteria to
survive in different environments by encoding various auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) …

The human gut harbors a complex ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria and
viruses. With the rise of next-generation sequencing technologies, we have seen a quantum …

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

Disease emergence events regularly result from human activities such as agriculture, which
frequently brings large populations of genetically uniform hosts into contact with potential …

The gut virome is an incredibly complex part of the gut ecosystem. Gut viruses play a role in
many disease states, but it is unknown to what extent the gut virome impacts everyday …

Soil is known to harbor viruses, but the majority are uncharacterized and their responses to
environmental changes are unknown. Here, we used a multi-omics approach …

Genes of unknown function are among the biggest challenges in molecular biology,
especially in microbial systems, where 40–60% of the predicted genes are unknown …