ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2020
Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 526 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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526 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Global research trends in bacteriophage and gut microbiota: a bibliometric and visual analysis from 2012 to 2025.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Pooled it
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- Defining the essential genome of diverse phages with phage Tn-seq.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Cryo-EM structure of bacteriophage Nocturne116: insights into the architecture of c2-likeJournal of virology · 2026Article
- Characterization of Escherichia Phage ND-4 Against Avian PathogenicLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Phage Genomics and Bioinformatics in Therapeutic Development: Evidence Limits, Validation Gates, and Translational Decision-Making.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Bacteriophage Research: A New Chapter in Future Medicine.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Shuttling, swapping, and mixing: the rapid modular evolution of antiviral repertoires in temperate phages and their satellites.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Perioperative gut microbial ecology: a new frontier for improving the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma surgery.Precision clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Eradication of catheter-associated MDR Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms mediated by novel phage encoded depolymerase activity.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- LAMBDA: a prophage detection benchmark for genomic language models.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Amino acid homorepeats in tape measure proteins correlate with bacteriophage tail length.The Journal of general virology · 2026Article
- Phage therapy: from basic biology to clinical application.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Strain-level molecular and infection traits are associated with differences in phage efficacy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Bacteriophage therapy for antimicrobial-resistant, biofilm‑associated diabetic foot infection: delivery routes, phage antibiotic synergy, and practical wound‑care integration.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the deep ocean. Although these advances have expanded our understanding of phage genomic diversity, they also revealed that we have only scratched the surface in the discovery of novel viruses. Yet, despite the remarkable diversity of phages at the nucleotide sequence level, the structural proteins that form viral particles show strong similarities and conservation. Phages are uniquely interconnected from an evolutionary perspective and undergo multiple events of genetic exchange in response to the selective pressure of their hosts, which drives their diversity. In this Review, we explore phage diversity at the structural, genomic and community levels as well as the complex evolutionary relationships between phages, moulded by the mosaicity of their genomes.
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