pepa-anton.bsky.social
@pepa-anton.bsky.social
Reposted
Officially published! 🧬🦠
What if more phages didn't mean more death? We show that even strictly lytic phages can stabilize host populations via persistent, episomal infections (often referred to as pseudolysogeny). It's time to move beyond the lysis/lysogeny binary. #phagesky #microsky
May 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A new work on how context matters... from the PhD Thesis of Rodrigo the Great
🦠➡️🧬 Community context matters!
In the second part of my PhD, we show how microbial complexity drives phage–bacteria ecology & evolution.
Check out the preprint 👇🏼
Biological context modulates virus-host dynamics and diversification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675297v1
September 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted
Happy to share our upcoming paper on pioneer microbial communities, including viruses, establishing after glacier retreat, result of a great collaboration @ua.es @mncn-csic.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @pepa-anton.bsky.social @estherrubioport.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Short-term virus-host interactions and functional dynamics in recently deglaciated Antarctic tundra soils
Abstract. Long-term chronosequence studies have shown that, as glaciers retreat, newly exposed soils become colonized through primary succession. To determ
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September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM