1 Result(s)

Article

Genomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes

Bacteriophages encode genes that modify bacterial functions during infection. The acquisition of phage-encoded virulence genes is a major mechanism for the rise of bacterial pathogens. In coral reefs, high bac...

Cynthia B. Silveira, Felipe H. Coutinho, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, Sean Benler… in BMC Genomics (2020)