The marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens is the fastest‐growing non‐pathogenic bacterium
known to date and is gaining more and more attention as an alternative chassis organism to …

Although it is generally accepted that phages drive bacterial evolution, how these dynamics
play out in the wild remains poorly understood. We found that susceptibility to viral killing in …

Coevolution between bacteriophages (phages) and their bacterial hosts occurs through
changes in resistance and counter-resistance mechanisms. To assess phage–host …

The cytoplasm of prokaryotes contains many molecular machines interacting directly with
the chromosome. These vital interactions depend on the chromosome structure, as a …

Phage satellites are bacterial genetic elements that co-opt phage machinery for their own
dissemination. Here we identify a family of satellites, named Phage-Inducible Chromosomal …

Targeted killing of pathogenic bacteria without harming beneficial members of host
microbiota holds promise as a strategy to cure disease and limit both antimicrobial-related …

Integrons are genetic elements involved in bacterial adaptation which capture, shuffle and
express genes encoding adaptive functions embedded in cassettes. These events are …

Global change has caused a worldwide increase in reports of Vibrio-associated diseases
with ecosystem-wide impacts on humans and marine animals. In Europe, higher prevalence …

Rapid turnover of mobile elements drives the plasticity of bacterial genomes. Integrated
bacteriophages (prophages) encode host-adaptive traits and represent a sizable fraction of …

Genomic analyses of microbial populations in their natural environment remain limited by
the difficulty to assemble full genomes of individual species. Consequently, the chromosome …