Metagenomic Analysis of the Diversity of DNA Viruses in the Surface and Deep Sea of the South China Sea.

ABSTRACT: A metagenomic analysis of the viral community from five surface and five deep sea water (>2000 m below the surface, mbs) samples collected from the central basin of the South China Sea and adjacent Northwest Pacific Ocean during July-August 2017 was conducted herein. We builded up a South China Sea DNA virome (SCSV) dataset of 29,967 viral Operational Taxonomic Units (vOTUs), which is comparable to the viral populations from the original Tara Ocean and Malaspina expeditions. The most abundant and widespread viral populations were from the uncultivated viruses annotated from the viral metagenomics. Only 74 and 37 vOTUs have similarity with the reported genomes from the cultivated viruses and the single-virus genomics, respectively. The community structures of deep sea viromes in the SCSV we

SUBMITTER: Liang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716333 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature