How do #phages impact #Streptomyces physiology? @BuryMone &co show that induction of the #prophage 'Samy' enhances dispersal of #multicellular aggregates of S. ambofaciens #bacteria in response to stress, likely promoting lineage propagation #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3LDRNib

Researchers reveal how a #virus hijacks #insect #sperm: May help control disease vectors and pests.

#biocontrol #Wolbachia #prophage #WO #noncoding_DNA #Cif

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-reveal-virus-hijacks-insect-sperm.html

Word Search Puzzle 346

Word List : #machree #taskwork #cerealin #campbell #secus #czarish #euler #alfakis #bushed #anatases #balanid #unhat #iodonium #yarran #cherubim #prophage #oligist #rasselas

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-346/

Decided to take a breather and immediately found an intact #prophage in one of our data sets. #phage

Phages... So many #phage and they are all #prophage integrated into a #bacteria #genome

A few million prophages from > million bacterial genomes

Are prophages good or bad for bacteria? The data shows they provide heaps of benefits

The paper is in #biorxiv and the data is on #figshare

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.20.537752v1

https://open.flinders.edu.au/projects/Prophage_predictions/162127

#Phages are important unrecognized players in the #ecology of the oral #pathogen Porphyromonas #gingivalis

#phage #bacteriophage #oralmicrobiome #microbiome #microbial community #prophage

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.519816v1

Nice Current Opinion in Microbiology review by @AndreaFloccari and @Anna_Dragos

Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527422001448

#Bacillussubtilis #prophage #biofilm

Interesting! Could a similar relationship be present among #prophage or other #phage signatures of #rhodobacter and their GTA elements? That would pretty much cement the authors' suspicions #microbiology

Unique relationships between phages and endospore-forming hosts - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966842X22003171

#Prophage excision switches the primary #ribosome rescue pathway and rescue-associated gene regulations in Escherichia coli -

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36471624/

DNA life preservers. #Caulobacter produces #prophage-like gene transfer agent that mediates survival in DNA damaging conditions by providing genomic DNA from donor cells for #recombination-based repair in recipients @Tung_BK_Le @michael_laub8 #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3E0EyVR

Great job from @laurainglis13@twitter.com showing how #prophage vary across the human body. Those sneaky #phage affect you!