Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species

T deCarvalho, E Mascolo, SM Caruso… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Satellites are mobile genetic elements that are dependent upon the replication machinery of
their helper viruses. Bacteriophages have provided many examples of satellite nucleic acids …

Phylogenetic distribution of WhiB-and Lsr2-type regulators in actinobacteriophage genomes

V Sharma, A Hardy, T Luthe, J Frunzke - Microbiology Spectrum, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses that infect different actinobacterial host species are known as actinobacteriophages.
They are composed of highly divergent and mosaic genomes due to frequent gene …