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Hiba Baaziz (Virginia Tech) and colleagues showed that subtle changes in the lysis-lysogeny decision of Salmonella phage P22 can dramatically impact the emergence of phage resistance.

Thu Vu Phuc Nguyen and colleagues have a new preprint showing that when multiple phages infect the same cell, they slow or even prevent each other from entering the cell. Check out his Twitter thread!

Phage utility against Burkholderia cepacia complex species has been restricted by the prevailing paradigm of only using rare, obligately lytic phages, due to the perception that lysogenic phages are therapeutically unsuitable. Philip Lauman

A new ISME Journal article by Xiang Tang and colleagues shows lysogenic phages with arsM-bearing markers help bacterial communities adapt to trivalent arsenic toxicity. The phage-host interaction enabled the quick spread of arsM among soil

Pre-print: Temperate phage-antibiotic synergy across antibiotic classes reveals new mechanism for preventing lysogeny.

Preprint: Bacteriophages Playing Nice: Lysogenic bacteriophage replication is stable in the human gut microbiota

Aisling Brady (University of Glasgow, UK) and colleagues published a review article in Annual Reviews of Microbiology on the molecular basis of lysis–lysogeny decisions in Gram-positive phages. They discuss a variety of mechanisms and the g

Katherine Wetzel (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues recently published their work on protein-mediated and RNA-based origins of replication of extrachromosomal mycobacterial prophages in mBio. The study highlights the diversity of lys

Katherine Wetzel (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues recently published their work on protein-mediated and RNA-based origins of replication of extrachromosomal mycobacterial prophages in mBio. The study highlights the diversity of lys

You may recall reading about the discovery of arbitrium, a peptide produced by Bacillus phages to regulate lysogeny decisions. A new paper by Avigail Stokar-Avihail and colleagues in the Sorek lab at the Weizmann Institute has shown that ar

You may recall reading about the discovery of arbitrium, a peptide produced by Bacillus phages to regulate lysogeny decisions. A new paper by Avigail Stokar-Avihail and colleagues in the Sorek lab at the Weizmann Institute has shown that ar