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Phages are generally described as species-specific or even strain-specific, but how often do we really check? Daniel Cazares (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) and colleagues pitted phages against a diverse collection of 600 bacteria and found more host promiscuity than you'd expect! Their new MSystems paper describes a novel group of promiscuous podophages infecting diverse Gammaproteobacteria.