Bacteriophages occupy a unique position in biology, representing an absolute majority of all
organisms in the biosphere. Because their genomes are relatively small, elucidating the …

Mycobacteriophages—bacteriophages infecting Mycobacterium hosts—contribute
substantially to our understanding of viral diversity and evolution, provide resources for …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

Microbial sulfur metabolism contributes to biogeochemical cycling on global scales. Sulfur
metabolizing microbes are infected by phages that can encode auxiliary metabolic genes …

Bacteriophages play key roles in microbial evolution 1, 2, marine nutrient cycling 3 and
human disease 4. Phages are genetically diverse, and their genome architectures are …

Engaging large numbers of undergraduates in authentic scientific discovery is desirable but
difficult to achieve. We have developed a general model in which faculty and teaching …

Prophages are phages in lysogeny that are integrated into, and replicated as part of, the
host bacterial genome. These mobile elements can have tremendous impact on their …

Temperate phages are common, and prophages are abundant residents of sequenced
bacterial genomes. Mycobacteriophages are viruses that infect mycobacterial hosts …

Background Bacteriophage genomes have mosaic architectures and are replete with small
open reading frames of unknown function, presenting challenges in their annotation …

Cyanophages infecting the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
encode and express genes for the photosynthetic light reactions. Sequenced cyanophage …