Genome Sequences of the First Phages Infecting <i>Limnohabitans</i> Reveal Their Global Distribution and Metabolic Potential.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophages (phages) are one of the critical biotic drivers of prokaryotic community dynamics, functions, and evolution. Despite their importance in aquatic ecosystems, very few phages have been isolated from freshwater lakes, hampering our understanding of their ecological importance and usage in a variety of biotechnological applications. Limnohabitans, with a ubiquitous distribution, is a metabolically versatile, fast-growing, morphologically diverse freshwater lake bacterial genera. It is especially abundant in pH-neutral and alkaline aquatic habitats, where it represents an average of 12% of freshwater bacterioplankton and plays an important role in funneling carbon from primary producers to higher trophic levels. However, no phages infecting Limnohabitans have been r

SUBMITTER: Deng B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12195039 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature