The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance.
Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about …

The human gut microbiome is a dense and taxonomically diverse consortium of
microorganisms. While the bacterial components of the microbiome have received …

Ecosystems are controlled by 'bottom-up'(resources) and 'top-down'(predation) forces. Viral
infection is now recognized as a ubiquitous top-down control of microbial growth across …

Phage therapy is a medical form of biological control of bacterial infections, one that uses
naturally occurring viruses, called bacteriophages or phages, as antibacterial agents …

Bacteriophages from the Inoviridae family (inoviruses) are characterized by their unique
morphology, genome content and infection cycle. One of the most striking features of …

Single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses are a major component of the earth virome. In particular,
the circular, Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS-DNA) viruses show high diversity and …

Viruses and mobile genetic elements are molecular parasites or symbionts that coevolve
with nearly all forms of cellular life. The route of virus replication and protein expression is …

Virus metagenomics is a young research filed but it has already transformed our
understanding of virus diversity and evolution, and illuminated at a new level the …

Asgardarchaeota harbour many eukaryotic signature proteins and are widely considered to
represent the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes. Whether similarities between Asgard …

Asgard archaea are globally distributed prokaryotic microorganisms related to eukaryotes;
however, viruses that infect these organisms have not been described. Here, using …