Well-temperate phage: optimal bet-hedging against local environmental collapses [PDF]
, 2015 Upon infection of their bacterial hosts temperate phages must chose between lysogenic and lytic developmental strategies. Here we apply the game-theoretic bet-hedging strategy introduced by Kelly to derive the optimal lysogenic fraction of the total ...
Maslov, Sergei, Sneppen, Kim
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Bacterial viruses enable their host to acquire antibiotic resistance genes from neighbouring cells [PDF]
, 2016 Prophages are quiescent viruses located in the chromosomes of bacteria. In the human pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, prophages are omnipresent and are believed to be responsible for the spread of some antibiotic resistance genes.
Catalan-Moreno, Arancha +7 more
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Phage therapy: An alternative to antibiotics in the age of multi-drug resistance. [PDF]
, 2017 The practice of phage therapy, which uses bacterial viruses (phages) to treat bacterial infections, has been around for almost a century. The universal decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics has generated renewed interest in revisiting this practice.
Koskella, Britt, Lin, Derek, Lin, Henry
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Transcriptome analysis of bacteriophage communities in periodontal health and disease. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundThe role of viruses as members of the human microbiome has gained broader attention with the discovery that human body surfaces are inhabited by sizeable viral communities.
Abeles, Shira R +5 more
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Induction of temperate cyanophage AS-1 by heavy metal – copper
BMC Microbiology, 2006 Background It has been reported that some marine cyanophage are temperate and can be induced from a lysogenic phase to a lytic phase by different agents such as heavy metals. However, to date no significant reports have focused on the temperate nature of
Chu Tin-Chun +7 more
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Lysogeny in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microorganisms, 2020 Bacterial viruses, or bacteriophages, are major contributors to the evolution, pathogenesis and overall biology of their host bacteria. During their life cycle, temperate bacteriophages form stable associations with their host by integrating into the ...
Geneviève Garriss +1 more
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A viral system to optimise the daily drayage problem [PDF]
, 2015 The intermodal transport chain can become more efficient by means of a good organisation of the drayage movements. Drayage in intermodal container terminals involves the pick up or delivery of containers at customer locations, and the main objective is ...
Aparicio Ruiz, Pablo +3 more
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Bacteriophage and their potential roles in the human oral cavity. [PDF]
, 2015 The human oral cavity provides the perfect portal of entry for viruses and bacteria in the environment to access new hosts. Hence, the oral cavity is one of the most densely populated habitats of the human body containing some 6 billion bacteria and ...
Boehm, Tobias K +3 more
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Uneven host cell growth causes lysogenic virus induction in the Baltic Sea.
PLoS ONE, 2019 In the Baltic Sea redoxcline, lysogenic viruses infecting prokaryotes have rarely been detected using the commonly used inducing agent mitomycin C. However, it is well known that not all viruses are induceable by mitomycin C and growing evidence suggests
Nicole Köstner +4 more
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Identification of Cohesive Ends and Genes Encoding the Terminase of Phage 16-3 [PDF]
, 2005 Cohesive ends of 16-3, a temperate phage of Rhizobium meliloti 41, have been identified as 10-base-long, 3′-protruding complementary G/C-rich sequences. terS and terL encode the two subunits of 16-3 terminase.
Buzas, Z. +6 more
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