Great job by the brilliant @pilardomingoc.bsky.social and her team!

Officially published! 🧬🦠
What if more phages didn't mean more death? We show that even strictly lytic phages can stabilize host populations via persistent, episomal infections (often referred to as pseudolysogeny). It's time to move beyond the lysis/lysogeny binary. #phagesky #microsky

A new work on how context matters... from the PhD Thesis of Rodrigo the Great

Short-term virus-host interactions and functional dynamics in recently deglaciated Antarctic tundra soils Abstract. Long-term chronosequence studies have shown that, as glaciers retreat, newly exposed soils become colonized through primary succession. To determ

Happy to share our upcoming paper on pioneer microbial communities, including viruses, establishing after glacier retreat, result of a great collaboration @ua.es @mncn-csic.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @pepa-anton.bsky.social @estherrubioport.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...