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An analysis of more than 30,000 genomes shows that global trade of breeding chickens contributed to the spread of Salmonella Enteritidis.

A study in human airway epithelial cells shows that measles virus forms infectious centres, which detach and might promote transmission.

This trypansome study shows that slender parasites can infect and develop in flies, expanding our understanding of the trypansome life cycle.

A 1,000-day experiment explored bacterial longevity under nutrient starvation.

A study of centenarians from Japan shows that they have unique bile-metabolizing bacteria in their gut microbiota.

This study shows that the application of probiotic bacteria to seaweed can protect from pathogen-induced bleaching.

This study shows that hydrogen produced in termite guts can be used by mound bacteria.

This study shows that flagellate epibionts channel nutrient flows towards their large diatom host.

A study using synthetic communities shows that the root microbiome exhibits host preferences and that this correlates with invasiveness.

This study shows that IgA responses push gut fungi towards mutualism and curtail invasiveness.

Two recent studies provide evidence that liquid–liquid phase separation during viral replication is a target for antiviral therapy.

A recent study uncovers that sensing of host amino acids in Aeromonas veronii regulates bacterial motility, enhancing gut colonization of zebrafish.

Oomycetes use a slicing mechanism depending on polarized hyphae to invade plant hosts.

In marine sponges, higher microbiome diversity and maintenance of host innate immunity was associated with resilience to warming and acidification.

This study shows that phage predation of Klebsiella pneumoniae is regulated by capsule type and that capsule loss promotes plasmid conjugation.

A recent study reports the discovery of bat coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, including a virus that displays high sequence identity to SARS-CoV-2 in most genomic regions.

This study reports the evolution of a bacterial enzyme that does not have an inherent RNA-binding activity into a virus-like nucleocapsid protein that efficiently packages and encapsidates copies of its own mRNA.

A recent study reports the efficacy of Wolbachia-infected mosquito deployments for the control of dengue fever in Indonesia.

Analysis of endogenous viral elements reveals that bornaviruses already infected hosts 100 million years ago.

This study finds that a deadly skin disease in red squirrels is associated with a staphylococcal clone often acquired through spillover from other hosts.