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Bacteriophages. --- Bacteriophage --- Phages --- Viruses --- Lysogeny --- Transduction

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T-PHAGES --- MORPHOGENESIS --- T-PHAGES --- MUTATION (BIOLOGIE) --- MUTATION (BIOLOGIE) --- MORPHOGENESIS --- PLASMIDS --- PLASMIDS

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Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and are believed to be the most abundant and genetically diverse organisms on Earth. As such, their ecology is vast both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Their abundance makes an understanding of phage ecology increasingly relevant to bacterial ecosystem ecology, bacterial genomics and bacterial pathology. Abedon provides the first text on phage ecology for almost 20 years. Written by leading experts, synthesizing the three key approaches to studying phage ecology, namely studying them in natural environments (in situ), experimentally in the lab, or theoretically using mathematical or computer models. With strong emphasis on microbial population biology and distilling cutting-edge research into basic principles, this book will complement other currently available volumes. It will therefore serve as an essential resource for graduate students and researchers, particularly those with an interest in phage ecology and evolutionary biology.

Bacteriophages --- Viruses --- Ecology of viruses --- Viral ecology --- Virus ecology --- Microbial ecology --- Bacteriophage --- Phages --- Lysogeny --- Transduction --- Ecology.

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Since the late 1800s, the discovery of new viruses was a gradual process. Viruses were described one by one using a suite of techniques such as (electron) microscopy and viral culture. Investigators were usually interested in a disease state within an organism, and expeditions in viral ecology were rare. The advent of metagenomics using high-throughput sequencing has revolutionized not only the rate of virus discovery, but also the nature of the discoveries. For example, the viral ecology and etiology of many human diseases are being characterized, non-pathogenic viral commensals are ubiquitous, and the description of environmental viromes is making progress. This Frontiers in Virology Research Topic showcases how metagenomic and bioinformatic approaches have been combined to discover, classify and characterize novel viruses.

virome --- biological dark matter --- metagenome --- metagenomics --- bacteriophages --- bioinformatics --- virus discovery --- phages