Ran Tahan

The paper infers single-cell heterogeneity in bacteriophage lysis-associated traits from population-scale dynamics, showing that burst size variability is largely explained by latent period differences.

The paper investigates how virus-grazer interactions affect Prochlorococcus mortality, virus production, and organic matter aggregation in a simplified marine ecosystem.

This study shows that cyanophage NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis by accelerating infection, degrading the phycobilisome, and reducing light harvesting efficiency.

This study investigates the functional roles of thioredoxin and cve genes in marine cyanophages, showing thioredoxin enhances phage fitness and virulence, while cve improves virulence despite reducing progeny production.

The paper identifies a mechanism of phage resistance in Synechococcus involving tRNA gene expression loss, showing that reduced LeuTAA tRNA levels prevent phage gene translation.