Interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments

A Chevallereau, BJ Pons, S van Houte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
We commonly acknowledge that bacterial viruses (phages) shape the composition and
evolution of bacterial communities in nature and therefore have important roles in ecosystem …

The human virome: assembly, composition and host interactions

G Liang, FD Bushman - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The human body hosts vast microbial communities, termed the microbiome. Less well
known is the fact that the human body also hosts vast numbers of different viruses …

Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee

D Turner, AN Shkoporov, C Lood, AD Millard… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
This article summarises the activities of the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee of the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for the period of March 2021− March 2022 …

iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome

S Nayfach, D Páez-Espino, L Call, SJ Low… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bacteriophages have important roles in the ecology of the human gut microbiome but are
under-represented in reference databases. To address this problem, we assembled the …

Gut microbiome, liver immunology, and liver diseases

R Wang, R Tang, B Li, X Ma, B Schnabl… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The gut microbiota is a complex and plastic consortium of microorganisms that are intricately
connected with human physiology. The liver is a central immunological organ that is …

The human gut virome is highly diverse, stable, and individual specific

AN Shkoporov, AG Clooney, TDS Sutton, FJ Ryan… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
The human gut contains a vast array of viruses, mostly bacteriophages. The majority remain
uncharacterized, and their roles in shaping the gut microbiome and in impacting on human …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-virome analysis sheds light on viral dark matter in inflammatory bowel disease

AG Clooney, TDS Sutton, AN Shkoporov, RK Holohan… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
The human gut virome is thought to significantly impact the microbiome and human health.
However, most virome analyses have been performed on a limited fraction of known viruses …

High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome

W Zheng, S Zhao, Y Yin, H Zhang, DM Needham… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Characterizing complex microbial communities with single-cell resolution has been a long-
standing goal of microbiology. We present Microbe-seq, a high-throughput method that …

Fecal pollution can explain antibiotic resistance gene abundances in anthropogenically impacted environments

A Karkman, K Pärnänen, DGJ Larsson - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Discharge of treated sewage leads to release of antibiotic resistant bacteria, resistance
genes and antibiotic residues to the environment. However, it is unclear whether increased …