Identification and characterization of thousands of bacteriophage satellites across bacteria

Abstract. Bacteriophage–bacteria interactions are affected by phage satellites, elements that exploit phages for transfer between bacteria. Satellites can encod

Horizontal Gene Transfer, Fitness Costs and Mobility shape the spread of antibiotic resistance genes into experimental populations of Acinetobacter baylyi

Abstract. Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is important for microbial evolution, but how evolutionary forces shape the frequencies of horizontally transferred gen

Cooperative virulence via the collective action of secreted pathogen effectors - Nature Microbiology

Virulence can be endowed through the collective action of effectors.

Symposia | Smbe2023

Competence remodels the pneumococcal cell wall exposing key surface virulence factors that mediate increased host adherence

Competence development in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae controls several features such as genetic transformation, biofilm formation and virulence. This study shows that competence activation is crucial for optimal host adherence, via a mechanism dependent on the fratricin CbpD, which exposes virulence factors to the cell surface.

SPP 2330 – New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions

Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using an algorithm for ancestral genome reconstruction, the authors present 624 ancestral genomes for vertebrates, plants, fungi, metazoans and protists and reconstruct the chromosomal rearrangement history of all major vertebrate clades.