Emma Sedivy

Telomere bacteriophages are widespread and equip their bacterial hosts with potent interbacterial weapons Klebsiella host strains infected with telomere phages can grow to be the dominant lineage in mixed populations.

"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Meme describing types of headaches, with the most all encompassing headache being the stress of holding copious amounts of DNA in a phage head.

Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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thanks, bestie! takes one to know one!

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hey, that's me!

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW PREPRINT ALERT!
Thanks to all involved!

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