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ArticleScience advances2025

Telomere bacteriophages are widespread and equip their bacterial hosts with potent interbacterial weapons.

Sally M H Byers, Andrea Rocker, To N T Nguyen, Natalia C Rosas, George Taiaroa, Kher Shing Tan, Yan Li, Jonathan J Wilksch, Joel R Steele, Ralf B Schittenhelm and 3 more

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Sally M H ByersInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0009-0006-5534-5569
Andrea RockerInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4161-5007
To N T NguyenInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0009-0008-7258-6369
Natalia C RosasInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2343-2394
George TaiaroaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia.ORCID 0009-0009-3050-1424
Kher Shing TanInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9428-8337
Yan LiInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8317-824X
Jonathan J WilkschInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5125-8285
Joel R SteeleMonash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3070-9761
Ralf B SchittenhelmMonash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8738-1878
Rhys A DunstanInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7161-3993
Francesca L ShortInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0025-4858
Trevor LithgowInfection Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0102-7884

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that can kill bacteria, thereby editing and shaping microbial communities. The telomere phages are a curious form using telomere-like structures to replicate their genomes as linear extrachromosomal elements. Here, we find that telomere phages are widely distributed in bacteria, being highly prevalent in

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BacteriaBacteriophagesKlebsiellaTelomereGenome, Viral

Identifiers

PMID40305614
PMCPMC12042878

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