Viruses of the Nahant Collection, characterization of 251 marine Vibrionaceae viruses.

ABSTRACT: Viruses are highly discriminating in their interactions with host cells and are thought to play a major role in maintaining diversity of environmental microbes. However, large-scale ecological and genomic studies of co-occurring virus-host pairs, required to characterize the mechanistic and genomic foundations of virus-host interactions, are lacking. Here, we present the largest dataset of cultivated and sequenced co-occurring virus-host pairs that captures ecologically representative fine-scale diversity. Using the ubiquitous and ecologically diverse marine Vibrionaceae as a host platform, we isolate and sequence 251 dsDNA viruses and their hosts from three time points within a 93-day time-series study. The virus collection includes representatives of the three Caudovirales tailed virus m

SUBMITTER: Kauffman KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029569 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature