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Preprint: Class I DISARM provides anti-phage and anti-conjugation activity by unmethylated DNA recognition.

Preprint: a novel locally c-di-GMP-controlled exopolysaccharide synthase is required for phage N4 Infection of E. coli.

Cell wall deficiency may limit the efficacy of phage therapy.

A temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components.

Conventional homology-based comparative genomic analyses can only do so much in extracting information from databases. We used phages to test our comparative genomics tool (CALANGO) that considers annotation terms besides sequence data. By

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and Corinne Maurice published a new pre-print on bioRxiv on the app they developed called OnePetri: accelerating common bacteriophage Petri dish assays with computer vision. Check out the behind the app a

Shiraz Shah (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing hundreds of viral families in the healthy infant gut. These results were obtained from sequencing and analysing fecal viromes from

Anshul Sinha (McGill University, Canada) and colleagues published a pre-print showing that the transplantation of phages from ulcerative colitis patients shifts the gut bacteriome and exacerbates severity of induced colitis.

Andrzej Zielezinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and colleagues published a new preprint describing PHIST, a fast and accurate prediction of prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic viral sequences.

Sooyeon Song (Pennsylvania State Universtiy, Pennsylvania) and colleagues published a preprint on how CRISPR-Cas controls cryptic prophages. They demonstrated that the E. coli CRISPR-Cas system is active and inhibits its nine defective prop

Xiaoqing Wang (Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, China) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage resistance mechanisms increase colistin sensitivity in Acinetobacter baumannii.

Christopher Turkington (University of California, Merced) and colleagues published a preprint on hafeZ, a tool able to identify ‘active’ prophages within bacterial genomes through genomic read mapping. They've applied hafeZ to publicly avai

Quentin Leclerc (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint on the dual nature of phage: growth-dependent predation and generalized transduction of antimicrobial resistance. They developed mathematical

Jonathan Lynch (University of Hawaii, USA) and colleagues published a preprint on host- and bacterium-based determinants that protect squid-associated Vibrio fischeri from phage predation. They show that mutations in V. fischeri's exopolysa

Rosanna Wright (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how functional diversity increases efficacy of phage combinations. Their findings suggest that functional diversity is the key to effective phage combinati

Yue Liu (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands) and colleagues published a new preprint investigating a phenomenon where massive numbers of lipid-engulfed tailless phage particles are released from Lactococcus lactis without causing

Luke Hillary (Bangor University, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how diverse soil RNA viral communities have the potential to influence grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels. They ide

Hayley Nordstrom (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) and colleagues published a preprint showing genomic and functional characterization of P. aeruginosa-targeting phages isolated from hospital wastewater. They used a panel of cli

Nichith Ratheesh (Arizona State University) published a preprint on how a member of the oral microbiota can actively transport phages by swarming, leading to disruption of E. coli biofilms. They found that Capnocytophaga gingivalis forms tu

Tamsin Redgwell (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a preprint in bioRxiv describing how prophages in the infant gut are largely induced, and may be functionally relevant to their hosts. They found prophages in the inf