Mario López‐Pérez

This study shows that type IV pili in marine cyanobacteria increase phage encounter, leading to higher viral infection rates and competitive disadvantage in mixed populations.

The paper presents the first genomic catalogue of viruses and mobile genetic elements associated with Nitrososphaeria, revealing novel viral families and insights into their evolution and adaptation.

The paper examines O-chain polysaccharide biosynthesis cluster diversity in Pelagibacterales using SAGs and long-read metagenomics, finding high diversity and limited recent horizontal gene transfer.

RaFAH is a machine-learning method for virus-host prediction that outperforms existing methods with an F1-score of 0.97 at the phylum level, discovering new archaeal virus lineages and auxiliary metabolic genes.