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A deep-sea Planctomycetes bacterium performs a unique budding mode of division and recruits chronic phages for metabolizing nitrogen through the function of auxiliary metabolic genes.

Sequential expression of two transcription factors that bind to five- and ten-base female-specific cis-acting elements, respectively, promotes differentiation of Plasmodium female gametocytes.

Arabidopsis lines were screened for resistance to TuMV, identifying a region on chromosome 2 linked to necrosis that includes an antiviral gene.

A phage parasite encodes an external scaffolding protein to pirate and rearrange phage-encoded coat proteins to more efficiently transfer the phage parasite genome to new hosts and limit phage production.

Comparing the white-footed deermouse with mice and rats in an inflammation model reveals a means for the observed infection tolerance in this key animal reservoir for several human diseases.

Yeast that were evolved to adhere to plastic surfaces for a few hundred generations became hyper-adherent and more virulent.

Experimentally evolving yeast to adhere better to plastic led to adaptations that increased their ability to cause an infection.

The growth of wild Drosophila larvae on fruits is promoted by a yeast releasing essential nutrients extracellularly or by a stable association with a nutrient-providing bacterium established by microbe–microbe interactions.

Biochemical and in vivo physiology imaging reveal that plant pathogens actively imbalance the apoplastic eAdo/eATP levels as a virulence mechanism.