title: Phagebook: The Social Network.
abstract: Much like social networks are used to connect with friends or relatives, bacteria communicate with relatives through quorum sensing. Viruses, though, were thought to be asocial-until now. Erez et al. (2017) reveal that viruses are also sharing information with relatives.
authors.affiliation: Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique & PROTEO, Faculté des sciences et de génie, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses & GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, 2420 rue de la Terrasse, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
authors.forename: Alexander P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Hynes
authors.affiliation: Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique & PROTEO, Faculté des sciences et de génie, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses & GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, 2420 rue de la Terrasse, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address: sylvain.moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca.
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moineau
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D053038:Quorum Sensing
keywords: Bacillus; bacteriophage; communication; lysogeny; microbiology; phage; quorum sensing; resistance; signal peptide; virus