Bacteriophages, which are viruses infecting bacteria, are the most ubiquitous and diverse
entities in the biosphere. There is accumulating evidence revealing their important roles in …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the gut microbiota contributes to the development
of neurodegenerative diseases via the microbiota-gut-brain axis. As a contributing factor …

The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Bacteriophages (or phages), which infect bacteria, have two distinct lifestyles: virulent and
temperate. Predicting the lifestyle of phages helps decipher their interactions with their …

Viral genomes are poorly annotated in metagenomic samples, representing an obstacle to
understanding viral diversity and function. Current annotation approaches rely on alignment …

Bacteriophages are abundant in soils. However, the majority are uncharacterized, and their
hosts are unknown. Here, we apply high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi …

Viruses are often studied using metagenome-assembled sequences, but genome
incompleteness hampers comprehensive and accurate analyses. Contig Overlap Based Re …

Background Bacterial viruses, phages, play a key role in nutrient turnover and lysis of
bacteria in terrestrial ecosystems. While phages are abundant in soils, their effects on plant …

Highlights•Global phage diversity is now primarily explored through cultivation-independent
metagenomics.•Metagenome-derived phages are typically linked to their host (s) via in silico …

Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the biggest public health problems, and
airborne transmission is an important but under-appreciated pathway for the spread of …