The maternal gut microbiome is a predictor of infant eczema.

Diversity-generating retroelements are engineered for directed evolution in E.coli.

Gallego-del-Sol et al. show that arbitrium-coding phages can sense non-cognate peptide signals from other phages to regulate lysis-lysogeny decisions. This crosstalk affects lysis-lysogeny outcomes of phage infections, mixed lysogenic communities, and polylysogens. Our results demonstrate that crosstalk is an important mechanism that drives phage interactions in microbial communities.

Rapid & standardized genome annotation using protein structural information - gbouras13/baktfold

Background Feces represent a complex biological matrix that provides valuable information about intestinal physiology and gut microbial activity. Comprehensive fecal DNA sequencing is mostly utilized ...

The Lifelines NEXT gut (LLNEXT-GV) and breastmilk (LLNEXT-BMV) viral catalogs comprise representative viral genomes (vOTUs) and their associated metadata, recovered from 4,523 fecal and 90 breastmilk ...

This study explores the dynamics of mobile genetic elements in the infant gut after cesarean birth. Fernández-Pato et al. show that early infant gut mobilome is highly individual-specific and shaped by feeding mode. Antibiotic exposure at birth has minimal effect, and early mother–infant strain-sharing is rarely detected.