Phages... So many #phage and they are all #prophage integrated into a #bacteria #genome

A few million prophages from > million bacterial genomes

Are prophages good or bad for bacteria? The data shows they provide heaps of benefits

The paper is in #biorxiv and the data is on #figshare

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.20.537752v1

https://open.flinders.edu.au/projects/Prophage_predictions/162127

The Promise and Pitfalls of Prophages

Phages dominate every ecosystem on the planet. While virulent phages sculpt the microbiome by killing their bacterial hosts, temperate phages provide unique growth advantages to their hosts through lysogenic conversion.

^bioRxiv