Pluribus is a sci-fi drama and it’s just Vince Gilligan doing what he does best: mixing the weird with the deeply human.

The finding that marine environments with high levels of host microbes have fewer viruses per host than when host abundance is low challenges a theory on the relative roles of lysogenic and lytic ...

Viruses in different life cycles can promote elemental cycling (e.g., carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) by viral lysing or auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) metabolisms. Viruses can increase microbial ...

Viruses talk to each other, and not just about the weather. They talk about whether or not they should infect or kill their host (no big deal, right?). Rotem Zorek, lead author Zohar Erez, and ...

Classical pollutants (e.g., hydrocarbon, pesticides) have been recently recognized to induce lytic cycle in lysogenic bacteria, but information on micro-pollutants is almost completely lacking. We ...

Microbial Ecology, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Apr., 2004), pp. 427-439 (13 pages) The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica form the coldest and driest ecosystem on Earth. Within this region there are a number of ...

Viruses can kill bacterial cells or, under the right circumstances, lend them helpful genes that the bacterium could harness to, say, better attack its own hosts. Experiments have now revealed that ...

A newly revealed mechanism of horizontal gene transfer improves understanding of how antibiotic resistance is transferred between bacteria. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance (AR) is a ...