Prophage border curation reveals horizontal transfer of lysogeny-related elements between filamentous and double jelly-roll phages
Ruijie Ma, Rui Zhang · 2025
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Ruijie Ma and Rui Zhang published a 2025 genomics study of viruses that hide inside marine bacteria. Most research on such viruses focuses on tailed types, leaving thread-shaped and double-shelled types poorly understood despite their abundance. The team mined hundreds of genomes from Vibrio bacteria, a group that includes the cholera agent.
They located more than seven hundred hidden viruses and pinned down exactly where each one joins the bacterial genome. Comparing them revealed that two very different virus families share a borrowed toolkit for settling into a host, passed between them by gene transfer. Some viral regions also carry weapons and disease factors that may help the viruses persist.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ruijie Ma, Rui Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |