ArticleJournal of bacteriology2018
Phage Morons Play an Important Role in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phenotypes.
Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
58 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.
- Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Smaller Genomes and Shorter Prophage Sequences Differentiate Clinical from Environmental Isolates ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Phage bioaugmentation reveals the potential of lysogeny for soil bioremediation.Communications biology · 2026Review
- Article
- Diverse Bacterial Anti-Phage Strategies: From the Laboratory to the Clinic.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- A prophage-expressed type IV pilus component provides anti-phage defense.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Steering the course: targeting and exploiting surface receptors in phage therapy.Journal of bacteriology · 2026Review
- Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Antivirulence Activity and Therapeutic Potential of JumboJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Phage-encoded protein PavP modulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence by dual inhibition of growth and pathogenic traits.Biology direct · 2025Article
- Systematic evaluation of phenotypic variations induced by prophages in a clinical isolate ofmSystems · 2025Article
- Prophage regulation ofeLife · 2025Article
- Article
- Diversity and Role of Prophages inGenes · 2025Article
- Genomic variation inMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Activation of bacterial programmed cell death by phage inhibitors of host immunity.Molecular cell · 2025Article
- Article
- Phage reprogramming ofmBio · 2025Article
- Exploring Viral Interactions inLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Naturally competent bacteria and their genetic parasites-a battle for control over horizontal gene transfer?FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, play a critical role in controlling bacterial populations in many diverse environments, including the human body. This control stems not only from phages killing bacteria but also from the formation of lysogens. In this state, the phage replication cycle is suppressed, and the phage genome is maintained in the bacterial cell in a form known as a prophage. Prophages often carry genes that benefit the host bacterial cell, since increasing the survival of the host cell by extension also increases the fitness of the prophage. These highly diverse and beneficial phage genes, which are not required for the life cycle of the phage itself, have been referred to as "morons," as their presence adds "more on" the phage genome in which they are found. While individual phage morons have been shown to contribute to bacterial virulence by a number of different mechanisms, there have been no systematic investigations of their activities. Using a library of phages that infect two different clinical isolates of
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.