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Ying Liu (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Biology on diversity, taxonomy, and evolution of archaeal viruses of the class Caudoviricetes.

Maria Loose (Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics showing natural bred ε2-phages have improved host range and virulence against uropathogenic Escherichia coli over their ancestor pha

Sean Meaden (University of Exeter, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology showing high viral abundance and low diversity are associated with increased CRISPR-Cas prevalence across microbial ecosystems.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School, USA) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity.

Carlos Martinez-Soto (University of Guelph, Canada) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing PHIDA: A high throughput turbidimetric data analytic tool to compare host range profiles of bacteriophages isolated using different

Victoria Turzynski (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing imaging techniques for detecting prokaryotic viruses in environmental samples.

Rubén González (University of Valencia, Spain) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing the interplay between the host microbiome and pathogenic viral infections.

David Picton (Durham University, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research showing the phage defence island of a multidrug resistant plasmid uses both BREX and type IV restriction for complementary protection from v

We now know megaphages (phages with extremely large genomes) are ubiquitous, but before now, no complete marine megaphage had been identified. Slawomir Michniewski (University of Warwick) and colleagues published a new paper in ISME Communi

Carlos Martinez-Soto (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses describing PHIDA: a high throughput turbidimetric data analytic tool to compare host range profiles of phages isolated usi

Dipesh Khanal (University of Sydney, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in International Journal of Pharmaceutics on enteric-coated phage tablets for oral administration against gastrointestinal infections.

Viruses modulate carbon cycling, but it's been unknown whether they're active under winter conditions. Gareth Trubl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) and colleagues published a new paper on active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing tem

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new paper in The ISME Journal describing phages in the infant gut: a framework for virome development during early life.

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Duke University) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing how phage-resistant bacteria reveal a role for potassium in root colonization.

Lyman Ngiam (University of Queensland) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology showing that phages isolated from non-target bacteria demonstrate broad host range infectivity against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Shen-Yuan Hsieh (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing a comparison of PCR vs. PCR-free DNA library preparation for characterising the human faecal virome.

Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on RNA and Sugars as unique properties of phages infecting multidrug resistant Acinetobacter radioresistens.

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing prophages encode phage-defense systems with cognate self-immunity. Check out this awesome Twitter thread by Jay Hinton about the discover

Anders Nørgaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal showing subtypes of tail spike proteins predicts the host range of Ackermannviridae phages.

Jessica Sacher (University of Alberta) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing that reduced infection efficiency of phage NCTC 12673 on non-motile Campylobacter jejuni strains is related to oxidative stress. They uncovered a