Alejandro Reyes

TL;DR: Multidrug-resistant soil bacteria containing resistance cassettes against five classes of antibiotics are described that have perfect nucleotide identity to genes from diverse human pathogens, offering not only evidence of lateral exchange but also a mechanism by which antibiotic resistance disseminates.

TL;DR: In this article, the viromes (metagenomes) of virus-like particles isolated from faecal samples collected from healthy adult female monozygotic twins and their mothers at three time points over a one-year period.

TL;DR: High-throughput anaerobic culturing techniques with gnotobiotic animal husbandry and metagenomics are combined to show that the human fecal microbiota consists largely of taxa and predicted functions that are represented in its readily cultured members.

TL;DR: How work characterizing phage diversity and lifestyles in the human gut is changing the authors' view of ourselves as supra-organisms is explored and how a renewed appreciation of phage dynamics may yield new applications for phage therapies designed to manipulate the structure and functions of their gut microbiomes is discussed.

TL;DR: The MIUViG (Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome) as mentioned in this paper standard was developed within the Genomic Standards Consortium framework and includes virus origin, genome quality, genome annotation, taxonomic classification, biogeographic distribution and in silico host prediction.