Eugene V. Koonin

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Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• END nucleases are antiphage defence systems targeting multiple phages with modified genomes

  Nature Microbiology · 2026-06-26

• Beyond oncogenesis: the unexplored benefits of viruses in cancer immunity

  Nature reviews. Cancer · 2026-06-18

• Identification of hot spring Obelisk-like RNA replicons and expanded diversity of the Obelisk superfamily

  Nature Communications · 2026-04-20 · 1 citations

• Frequent occurrence and predicted functions of tRNAs with 4-base-pair anticodon stems in bacteria: extended superwobble hypothesis

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2026-03-30

• Ecological determinants of altruism in prokaryote antivirus defense

  Biology Direct · 2025-12-20 · 2 citations

• Spatial-temporal genome analysis and its application for the prediction of functional systems in bacteria and archaea

  mBio · 2025-12-15 · 2 citations

• The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotesPreprint

  Research Square · 2025-12-12

• Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-11-28 · 4 citations

• KlebPhaCol: a community-driven resource for <i>Klebsiella</i> research identified a novel phage family

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2025-11-13 · 3 citations

• Oxygen-adaptive plasticity of Asgard archaea dependent on terminal oxidase and globinPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-10

• Microcompartments in archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes: a bioenergetic engine that could have fuelled eukaryogenesisPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-09

• An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems including rare variants

  Nature Microbiology · 2025-11-06 · 54 citations

• <i>De novo</i> origin of numerous microproteins in enterobacteria

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2025-11-05 · 2 citations

• Evolution of antivirus defense in prokaryotes, depending on the environmental virus prevalence and virome dynamics

  mBio · 2025-09-16 · 2 citations

• YprA family helicases provide the missing link between diverse prokaryotic immune systemsPreprint

  Cell Host & Microbe · 2025-09-15 · 5 citations

• Identification of Obelisk-like covalently closed circular RNA replicon in hot springs by double-stranded RNA sequencing and expansion of the diversity of the Obelisk superfamilyPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-03 · 2 citations

• ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Duplodnaviria 2025

  Journal of General Virology · 2025-09-02 · 4 citations

• Translon: a single term for translated regions

  Nature Methods · 2025-09-01 · 14 citations

• Anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins revealed by peeling back layers of bacterial immunity

  Nature Communications · 2025-08-22 · 8 citations

• A prevalent huge phage clade in human and animal gut microbiomesPreprint

  Research Square · 2025-08-19