This title has ceased (2017)
Aims & Scope: Bacteriophage is the first international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to all aspects of bacteriophage research, ranging from basic phage biology and taxonomy to advanced bacteriophage-host cell interactions and various practical applications of bacteriophages. The journal publishes reviews of various bacteriophage-relevant topics, and provides a peer-reviewed venue for researchers to present the results of their phage research or other important phage-related topics in the following nine general categories:
• Reviews (mostly invited)
• Original Research Papers
• Clinical Research Papers
• Brief Reports (Notes)
• Novel Phage Reports
• Methods and Protocols
• Article Addenda
• Life-in-Science
• Commentaries and Views/Letters to the Editor
The journal also maintains the list of all major bacteriophage-related conferences worldwide, in its “Upcoming Conferences” section.
Topics and Fields we will cover in Bacteriophage • Basic phage biology
• Bacteriophage classification/taxonomy
• Phage genomics and evolution
• Molecular mechanisms of phage infection, including but not limited to:
- Host recognition and adsorption
- Phage regulation and host bacterial cell interaction
- Phage replication, recombination and repair
- Phage structural biology and morphogenesis
- Phage lysins and lysis systems
- Phage and eukaryotic organisms (persistence, multiplication, immunogenicity, etc.)
• Phage and bacterial virulence
• Phage ecology including environmental prevalence and impact on microbiota
• Practical applications, including but not limited to:
- Diagnostics, reporter systems
- Indicators of water quality
- Targeted delivery
- Lytic enzymes
- Impact on biofilms
- Agricultural (including food safety) applications
- Veterinary applications
- In vivo animal studies
- Human clinical trials
- Phages as probiotics /tools for modulating microbiome
- Regulatory issues
• Working with phages: new methods and improved methodological approaches (e.g., methods for obtaining and characterizing phages, including but not limited to methods for:
- Phage titration and determining burst size
- Phage nucleotide sequencing and genome analysis
- Characterizing phage gene expression
- Characterizing the impact of phage infections on physiology/metabolic pathways of their host cells
- Studying phage communities in complex environments
- Characterizing the interactions between phages and biofilms
- Electron microscopic analysis of phages
- Determining optimal phage propagation and purification
- Stabilizing viable phage preparations
Submission is online at
http://bacteriophage.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, in consultation with the Associate Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. The editorial board will consider manuscripts and accompanying reviewer reports from established journals in the field for fast tracked decisions. If there are any questions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Group, 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
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