Phages, short for bacteriophages, are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and are the
most abundant biological entities on earth found in every explored environment, from the …

Highlights•Global phage diversity is now primarily explored through cultivation-independent
metagenomics.•Metagenome-derived phages are typically linked to their host (s) via in silico …

The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Viruses are integral components of all ecosystems and microbiomes on Earth. Through
pervasive infections of their cellular hosts, viruses can reshape microbial community …

Growing evidence implicates the gut microbiome in cognition. Viruses, the most abundant
life entities on the planet, are a commonly overlooked component of the gut virome …

Asgardarchaeota harbour many eukaryotic signature proteins and are widely considered to
represent the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes. Whether similarities between Asgard …

Asgard archaea are globally distributed prokaryotic microorganisms related to eukaryotes;
however, viruses that infect these organisms have not been described. Here, using …

Asgard archaea have recently been identified as the closest archaeal relatives of
eukaryotes. Their ecology, and particularly their virome, remain enigmatic. We reassembled …

Emerging evidence from genomics gives us a glimpse into the potential contribution of
lysogenic bacteriophages (phages) to the environmental adaptability of their hosts …

Machine learning has been broadly implemented to investigate biological systems. In this
regard, the field of phage biology has embraced machine learning to elucidate and predict …