Zhichao Zhou

The paper identifies novel viruses, auxiliary metabolic genes, and CRISPR-Cas systems in landfill viromes, highlighting unique virus-host interactions and genetic features.

This study identifies viruses from hydrothermal vents and shows that while many are endemic, some share proteins related to core functions, suggesting geology influences viral ecology and host coevolution.

This study reports four new marseillevirus strains, analyzes their biological properties, and predicts novel translation-associated proteins through in silico methods.

The paper analyzes a 20-year viral time-series in a freshwater lake to uncover seasonal dynamics, environmental drivers, and evolutionary patterns of viral diversity and ecology.

ViWrap provides a modular pipeline for analyzing viruses in metagenomes, enabling identification, classification, and host prediction through integration of multiple tools.

This study shows that controlling the arginine dihydrolase pathway in E. coli affects gut community assembly and butyrate production in vitro and in mice.

METABOLIC is a software tool for analyzing microbial genomes to predict metabolic functions, interactions, and contributions to biogeochemical cycles, showing better performance than existing tools.

The paper identifies PULs in B. uniformis that influence fitness and community interactions through glycan degradation and butyrate production.

The paper quantifies HGT efficiency in a synthetic microbial community and identifies factors influencing plasmid transfer via natural competence.

VIBRANT improves virus recovery and virome function analysis from metagenomes, outperforming existing tools in accuracy and completeness.

This study identifies 13 Asgard archaeal subgroups, reveals their widespread distribution in anaerobic environments, and provides evidence of their transcriptionally active mixotrophic lifestyle.