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Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome - Nature Complex prophage integration dynamics, including low-level induction, cross-family host range and transposase-mediated mobilization, challenge existing paradigms and deepen our understanding of phage–...

Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age-related microbiome metabolites modulate splicing and chromatin accessibility in the brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680371v1

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Discovering Broader Host Ranges and an IS-bound Prophage Class Through Long-Read Metagenomics Gut bacteriophages profoundly impact microbial ecology and human health, yet they are greatly understudied. Using deep, long-read bulk metagenomic sequencing, a technique that overcomes fundamental li...

Discovering Broader Host Ranges and an IS-bound Prophage Class Through Long-Read Metagenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Replicative selfish genetic elements are driving rapid pathogenic adaptation of Enterococcus faecium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.16.643550v1