Phages and bacteria manage to coexist and sustain ecosystems with a high diversity of
strains, despite limited resources and heavy predation. This diversity can be explained by …

Bacteriophages are central to microbial ecosystems for balancing bacterial populations and
promoting evolution by applying strong selection pressure. Here, we review some of the …

Viruses and bacteria are critical components of the human microbiome and play important
roles in health and disease. Most previous work has relied on studying bacteria and viruses …

Viral infections of microbial cells often culminate in lysis and the release of new virus
particles. However, viruses of microbes can also initiate chronic infections, in which new …

In communities with bacterial viruses (phage) and bacteria, the phage–bacteria infection
network establishes which virus types infect which host types. The structure of the infection …

Bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages (or phages), are arguably the most representative
biological organisms on planet Earth. Apart from being amongst the most ancient entities …

Ecological networks, both displaying mutualistic or antagonistic interactions, seem to share
common structural traits: the presence of nestedness and modularity. A variety of model …

Simple growth mechanisms have been proposed to explain the emergence of seemingly
universal network structures. The widely studied model of preferential attachment assumes …

Viruses and bacteria are critical components of the human microbiome and play important
roles in health 49 and disease. Bacterial communities have been associated with disease …

In 1989 Bergh et al. published a paper that drastically changed the way we perceive the
ecological importance of viruses and the role they play at a global scale. The premise of the …