Reconstruction of novel cyanobacterial siphovirus genomes from Mediterranean metagenomic fosmids.

ABSTRACT: Cellular metagenomes are primarily used for investigating microbial community structure and function. However, cloned fosmids from such metagenomes capture phage genome fragments that can be used as a source of phage genomes. We show that fosmid cloning from cellular metagenomes and sequencing at a high coverage is a credible alternative to constructing metaviriomes and allows capturing and assembling novel, complete phage genomes. It is likely that phages recovered from cellular metagenomes are those replicating within cells during sample collection and represent "active" phages, naturally amplifying their genomic DNA and increasing chances for cloning. We describe five sets of siphoviral contigs (MEDS1, MEDS2, MEDS3, MEDS4, and MEDS5), obtained by sequencing fosmids from the cellular met

SUBMITTER: Mizuno CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3553755 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature