Bacteria protect themselves from phage infections by capturing genetic material from dormant temperate phages, forming a biological "memory" that is passed to their offspring.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders — by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and ...

It was found that specific temperate gut phage taxa were associated with the later development of asthma. Notably, the joint abundances of 19 caudoviral families significantly contributed to this ...

A temperate phage, once inside a bacterium, can choose one of two life cycles. In the lytic cycle, the phage turns the bacterium into a factory for additional phages, ...

As a bacterial immune system, CRISPR-Cas is supposed to impose cuts, not suffer them. Yet CRISPR-Cas has been eliminated from many bacterial genomes. How this happens isn’t exactly clear ...