title: Listeriaphages: Genomes, evolution, and application.
abstract: Listeriais an important foodborne pathogen and the causative agent of Listeriosis, a potentially fatal infection. Several hundredListeriabacteriophages have been described over the past decades, but only few have actually been characterized in some detail, and genome sequences are available for less than twenty of them. We here present an overview of what is currently known aboutListeriaphage genomics, their role in host evolution and pathogenicity, and their various applications in biotechnology and diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health; ETH Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klumpp
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Loessner
keywords: CRISPR; Mosaic genomes; biocontrol; comK; endolysin; homologous recombination; pathogen detection; reporter phage