Katrine Whiteson

TL;DR: Details of the site-specific recombination processes have been revealed by recent structural and biochemical studies of members of both families, named after the amino acid residue that forms a covalent protein-DNA linkage in the reaction intermediate.

TL;DR: It is shown that phage-to-bacteria ratios were increased, relative to the adjacent environment, on all mucosal surfaces sampled, ranging from cnidarians to humans, and that this increase in phage abundance is mucus dependent and protects the underlying epithelium from bacterial infection.

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.

TL;DR: The V5 hypervariable region of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene is identified as a short region providing reliable identification of bacterial sequences available in public databases such as the Human Oral Microbiome Database, and several taxa not yet discovered in these types of samples are identified.