ReviewmBio2020
More than Simple Parasites: the Sociobiology of Bacteriophages and Their Bacterial Hosts.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Deciphering pervasive domestication and active "dark matter" of proviruses in prokaryotes via precision border mapping.Science advances · 2026Article
- Filamentous cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Viral Diversity in Polar Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soils: A Transect Study from King George Island, Antarctica.Food and environmental virology · 2025Article
- Prophages inHeliyon · 2025Article
- Potential of the livestock industry environment as a reservoir for spreading antimicrobial resistance.Open veterinary journal · 2025Review
- Navigating a Fine Balance: Point-Mutant Cheater Viruses Disrupt the Viral Replication Cycle.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Thinking Phage Innovations Through Evolution and Ecology.PHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023Review
- Comparative Genomics of Lentilactobacillus parabuchneri isolated from dairy, KEM complex, Makgeolli, and Saliva Microbiomes.BMC genomics · 2022Article
- The DNA polymerase of bacteriophage YerA41 replicates its T-modified DNA in a primer-independent manner.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- Comprehensive deciphering prophages in genusFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Highly different effects of phage therapy and antibiotic therapy on immunological responses of chickens infected withFrontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Comprehensive Scanning of Prophages inmSystems · 2021Article
- Phage therapy as strategy to face post-antibiotic era: a guide to beginners and experts.Archives of microbiology · 2021Review
- The weird eusociality of polyembryonic parasites.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Extraordinary Multi-Organismal Interactions Involving Bacteriophages, Bacteria, Fungi, and Rotifers: Quadruple Microbial Trophic Network in Water Droplets.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Spatial heterogeneity analysis of the human virome with Taylor's power law.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Article
- Methods for Extraction and Detection of Pf Bacteriophage DNA from the Sputum of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis.PHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Eco-Evolutionary Effects of Bacterial Cooperation on Phage Therapy: An Unknown Risk?Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bacteria harbor viruses called bacteriophages that, like all viruses, co-opt the host cellular machinery to replicate. Although this relationship is at first glance parasitic, there are social interactions among and between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts. These social interactions can take on many forms, including cooperation, altruism, and cheating. Such behaviors among individuals in groups of bacteria have been well described. However, the social nature of some interactions between phages or phages and bacteria is only now becoming clear. We are just beginning to understand how bacteriophages affect the sociobiology of bacteria, and we know even less about social interactions within bacteriophage populations. In this review, we discuss recent developments in our understanding of bacteriophage sociobiology, including how selective pressures influence the outcomes of social interactions between populations of bacteria and bacteriophages. We also explore how tripartite social interactions between bacteria, bacteriophages, and an animal host affect host-microbe interactions. Finally, we argue that understanding the sociobiology of bacteriophages will have implications for the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections.
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