In silico Prediction of Virus-Host Interactions for Marine Bacteroidetes With the Use of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes.

ABSTRACT: Bacteroidetes is one of the most abundant heterotrophic bacterial taxa in the ocean and play crucial roles in recycling phytoplankton-derived organic matter. Viruses of Bacteroidetes are also expected to have an important role in the regulation of host communities. However, knowledge on marine Bacteroidetes viruses is biased toward cultured viruses from a few species, mainly fish pathogens or Bacteroidetes not abundant in marine environments. In this study, we investigated the recently reported 1,811 marine viral genomes to identify putative Bacteroidetes viruses using various in silico host prediction techniques. Notably, we used microbial metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) to augment the marine Bacteroidetes reference genomic data. The examined viral genomes and MAGs were derived

SUBMITTER: Tominaga K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7198788 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature