Importance of Phage Ecology Understanding species diversity is a fundamental question in ecology and evolutionary biology. A major factor enabling diversity, from birds to plants to bacteria, is ...

Published online December 13 in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species, the host of a phage, can maintain a diverse community of competing phage ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in food-producing animals is a growing global concern that directly threatens human, animal, and environmental health. The ...

Published in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species, the host of a phage, ...

In a recent study, however, Yale scientists describe a new method for quantifying the host-attachment dynamics of several phage species—including some that target key bacterial pathogens ...

Proper identification is crucial, as some phages are so target-specific that they may have different effects on two bacteria from within the same species. Second, a phage has to be found that can ...

But virologists know little about how phages persist in the populations of bacterial cells they infect, hampering the development of phage therapies. Published online December 12 in the journal ...

In comparison to broad-spectrum antibiotics, viruses used for personalized phage therapy infect only targeted pathogenic bacteria without harming beneficial species, which reduces the risk of phage ...