Temperate phages are pervasive in nature, existing within bacterial cells in a form known as
prophages. In this state, survival of the phage is intricately tied to the survival of the bacterial …

The viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, are the most abundant biological entity on
earth. They play critical roles in controlling bacterial populations through phage-mediated …

Background: With advances in sequencing technology and decreasing costs, the number of
phage genomes that have been sequenced has increased markedly in the past decade …

Temperate phages are pervasive in bacterial genomes, existing as vertically inherited
islands termed prophages. Prophages are vulnerable to predation of their host bacterium by …

Bacteria have evolved diverse antiviral defence mechanisms to protect themselves against
phage infection. Phages integrated into bacterial chromosomes, known as prophages, also …

The arms race between bacteria and phages has led to the evolution of diverse anti-phage
defenses, several of which are controlled by quorum-sensing pathways. In this work, we …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes infections in a variety of
settings. Many P. aeruginosa isolates are infected by filamentous Pf bacteriophage …

Lysogenic induction ends the stable association between a bacteriophage and its host, and
the transition to the lytic cycle begins with early prophage e xcision followed by DNA r …

Pf bacteriophage are temperate phages that infect the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa,
a major cause of chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) and other settings. Pf and …

Bacteria-infecting viruses (phages) and their hosts maintain an ancient and complex
relationship. Bacterial predation by lytic phages drives an ongoing phage-host arms race …