- Viral effectors trigger innate immunity across the tree of lifeby Kevin BarthesFrancois RoussetTanita Wein1CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université de Lyon, INSERM U1111, UCBL1, CNRS UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France2Department of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- The ecology and evolution of microbial immune systems: a look on the wild vibrio sideby Frederique Le Roux1Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, H3T 1J4 on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Specificity and mechanism of tRNA cleavage by the AriB Toprim nuclease of the PARIS bacterial immune systemby Svetlana BelukhinaBaptiste SaudemontFlorence DepardieuTom LorthiosTinashe P. MavizaAlexei LivenskyiMarina SerebryakovaMaria AleksandrovaElizaveta UkholkinaNadezhda BurmistrovaPetr SergievMarouane LibiadSarah DubracFrederic BarrasYuri MotorinVirginie MarchandGregor HageluekenArtem IsaevDavid BikardChristophe Rouillon1Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russian Federation2Department of Microbiology, Synthetic Biology, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3525, Paris 75015, France3Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation4Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation5Department of Microbiology, Stress Adaptation and Metabolism Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 6047, Paris 75015, France6SMP IBSLor, EpiRNA-Seq Core Facility, Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy 54505, France7Institute of Structural Biology, Venusberg-Campus 1, University of Bonn, Bonn 53127, Germany on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Preface: the ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systemsby Edze Rients WestraUri GophnaStineke van Houte1Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK2Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Correction to ‘Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests’ (2025), by Kai et al.by Kaili LiZhihua LiuWenru XuWenjuan WangJiajia SuQiushuang LvWenhua GuoMarie Johnson1CAS IAE, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Gene co-occurrence and its association with phage infectivity in bacterial pangenomesby Anne KupczokAthina GavriilidouEmilian PaulitzLucía Guerrero-GarcíaFranz Baumdicker1Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands2Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland3Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland4Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany5Systems Biology and Mathematical Modeling Group, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany6Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany7Cluster of Excellence 'Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections', University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Bacteria–phage infection network structure and genomic defence system content predict efficacy of a phage therapy cocktail against Pseudomonas aeruginosa from chronic lung infectionsby Maisie R. CzernuszkaTaoran FuAnastasia KottaraMichael A. BrockhurstRosanna C. T. Wright1Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK2Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK3Pathogen Genomics and Virology Laboratory, UKHSA, Manchester M13 9WL, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio choleraeby Melanie Blokesch1Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- The H-NS homologues MvaT and MvaU repress CRISPR-Cas in Pseudomonas aeruginosaby Kira Céline KoonceJesper Juel MauritzenIda Friberg HitzEmil Funk VangsgaardElizabeth H. M. PutzAnne Sofie WajnFrederik Hagelund LethNina Molin Høyland-Kroghsbo1Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark2Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 1165 Copenhagen, Denmark on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Capsid redirection mechanism of the Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity island SaPIpT1028by Adaeze Doris OjioguJonasz B. PatkowskiXu KuangTiago R. D. CostaJakob T. RostølJosé R. Penadés1Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Abiotic environmental conditions determine phage resistance outcomes in a salt-marsh bacteriumby Ella SilkKate HardingMarina MahlerPeter C. FineranSean Meaden1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand2Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand3Bioprotection Aotearoa, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand4Genetics Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand5Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand6Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Phage defence-system abundances vary across environments and increase with viral densityby Sean MeadenEdze R. WestraPeter C. Fineran1Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK2York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK3Environment and Sustainability Institute, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK4Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand5Genetics Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand6Bioprotection Aotearoa, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand7Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Systematic functional assessment of anti-phage systems in their native hostby Ellie DavidClarisse PlantadySophiane PoissonnierJosie F. K. ElliottElodie KenckJustine Le BoulchArnaud GutierrezAnne Chevallereau1Université Paris Cité, CNRS, INSERM, Institut Cochin, 75014 Paris, France2Phaxiam Therapeutics, 60 Avenue Rockefeller, Bâtiment Bioserra, 69008 Lyon, France3Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry (MMSB), CNRS UMR 5086, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon, France on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Why do bacteria accumulate antiphage defence systems?by Tyler ClabbyFlorian TessonBaptiste GaborieauAude Bernheim1Department of Genetics and Genomics, Pasteur Institute, 75015 Paris, France2Université Paris Cité, INSERM, UMR 1137, IAME, Paris 75018, France3Hôpital Louis Mourier, DMU ESPRIT, Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Assistance Publique—Hopitaux de Paris, Paris 92700, France on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Diversity and abundance of ring nucleases in type III CRISPR-Cas lociby Ville HoikkalaHaotian ChiSabine GrüschowShirley GrahamMalcolm F White1School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Lineage-specific defence systems of pandemic Vibrio choleraeby Melanie BlokeschKimberley D. Seed1Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland2Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Phage susceptibility to a minimal, modular synthetic CRISPR-Cas system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is nutrient dependentby Josie F. K. ElliottKeira CozensYueyi CaiGretel WaughBridget N. WatsonEdze WestraTiffany B. Taylor1Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK2ESI, University of Exeter – Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, Cornwall, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Correction: ‘The heat is on: scaling improvements in photosynthetic thermal tolerance from the leaf to canopy to predict crop yields in a changing climate’ (2025), by Cavanagh and Matthewsby Amanda Cavanagh1School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Phage provoke growth delays and SOS response induction despite CRISPR-Cas protectionby Benoit J. PonsUrszula ŁapińskaIolanda Lopes-DominguesMatthew A. W. ChisnallEdze R. WestraStefano PagliaraStineke van Houte1University of Exeter Environment and Sustainability Institute, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK2Biosciences, University of Exeter Living Systems Institute, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Correction: ‘Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow’ (2022), by Schaal et al.by Kathleen Lotterhos1Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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- Modified DNA substrate selectivity by GmrSD-family Type IV restriction enzyme BrxUby Jennifer J. ReadshawYan-Jiun LeePeter WeigeleTim R. Blower1Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK2New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA on 4 September 2025 at 07:00
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