Phages can exploit their bacterial hosts by lytic infection, when many viral particles are
released at cell lysis, or by lysogeny, when phages integrate into the host's genome. We …

Many archaeal and bacterial organisms possess an adaptive immunity system known as
CRISPR-Cas. Its role is to recognize and degrade foreign DNA showing high similarity to …

Corals holobionts are formed by a dynamic multipartite symbiosis with intracellular
photoautotrophs in the genus Symbiodinium and a consortium of other microbes that include …

Phages infecting Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida, the causative agent of the
fish disease furunculosis, have been isolated for decades but very few of them have been …

Bacteriophages participate in soil life by influencing bacterial community structure and
function, biogeochemical cycling and horizontal gene transfer. Despite their great …

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. This property makes them highly suitable for
varied uses in industry or in the development of the treatment of bacterial infections …

In SBB'15 Supplements to BMC journals Genomics, we collected the best studies presented
at the conference. Due to the general breadth of the field of Systems Biology and …

Leptospira is a phylogenetically unique group of bacteria, and includes the causative agents
of leptospirosis, the most globally prevalent zoonosis. Bacteriophages in Leptospira are …

Background Despite high vaccination coverage using acellular (ACV) and whole-cell
pertussis (WCV) vaccines, the resurgence of pertussis is observed globally. Genetic …

This announcement contains the whole genome sequences of five Ackermannviridae that
infect members of the Enterobacteriaceae family of bacteria. Four of the five phages were …