Rubén Barcia-Cruz

TL;DR: In this article , the evolution of bacterial defences and phage counter-defences is underpinned by frequent genetic exchanges with, and between, mobile genetic elements, and multiple defences are active within a single genome.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the genetic structure of phage-vibrio coevolution and proposed a pan-escape system that can be shared among phages by homologous recombination within a population that infects a bacterial host.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared two populations of marine bacterial hosts and their phages collected during a time series sampling program in an oyster farm and found that a lower number of closely related hosts and a higher diversity of isolated phages resulted in small modules in the phage-bacterial infection network.

TL;DR: The Phage Inducible Chromosomal Minimalist Island (PICMI) as mentioned in this paper is a satellite of the Vibrionaceae family, which is characterized by reduced gene content, does not encode genes for capsid remodeling and packages its DNA as a concatemer.

TL;DR: It is shown that contrasting patterns of genetic diversity for host and phage lead to different infection network architectures and also provided evidence that a bloom of phages generates epigenetic and genetic variability that can be selected to counteract host defense systems.