Ecogenomics of groundwater viruses suggests niche differentiation linked to specific environmental tolerance
A. Kothari, S. Roux, H. Zhang, A. Prieto, D. Soneja, J.-M. Chandonia, S. J. Spencer, X. Wu, S. Altenburg, M. W. Fields, A. M. Deutschbauer, A. P. Arkin, E. J. Alm, R. Chakraborty, A. Mukhopadhyay
The paper identifies 41 viral clusters in groundwater plasmidomes, links them to bacterial hosts, and detects novel phage genera and host-specific genes.
mSystems · Jun 29, 2021Peer-reviewedMicrobiology