Limited consensus of marine viral diversity observed across techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Viruses are fundamental to many aspects of life influencing ecosystem functions. The `number of lenses´ we use for exploring the viral diversity has expanded, yet each has limitations that constrain our view of the uncultured virosphere. It is fundamental to evaluate the different viromic approaches and sequencing methods on their ability to recover the extant viral diversity and microdiversity present in a sample. The differences in genome recovery between technologies have downstream impacts on subsequent estimates of viral diversity and function within a sample that can limit our comprehension of natural viral assemblages and their interactions with their microbial hosts.

Results

Here, using the same surface seawater sample, we compare short- and long-read viro

SUBMITTER: Vila-Nistal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12752341 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature