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Bardy P., MacDonald C.I.W., Kirchberger P.C., Jenkins H.T., Botka T., Byrom L., Alim N.T.B, Traore D.A.K., König H.C., Nicholas T.R., Chechik M., Hart S.J., Turkenburg J.P., Blaza J.N., Beatty J.T., Fogg P.C.M. and Antson A.A. Penton blooming, a conserved mechanism of genome delivery used by disparate microviruses. mBio, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03713-24
Kirchberger P.C. and Ochman H. Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174. Annual Review of Virology 10(1):99-118 2023. doi: 10.1146/annurev-virology-100120-011239.
Kirchberger P.C., Martinez Z.A., and Ochman, H. Organizing the Global Diversity of Microviruses. mBio 2022 e00588-22. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00588-22
Kirchberger P.C., Martinez Z.A., Luker L.J., and Ochman H. Defensive hypervariable regions confer superinfection exclusion in Microviruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 118(28). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102786118
Kirchberger P.C., Schmidt M., and Ochman H. The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes. Annual Review of Microbiology 2020; 74. doi: 10.1146/annurev-micro-020518-115822.
Kirchberger P.C., and Ochman H. Resurrection of a Global, Metagenomically Defined Gokushovirus. eLife 2020; 9: e51599. doi: 10.7554/eLife.51599.