A Novel Phage Infecting Alteromonas Represents a Distinct Group of Siphophages Infecting Diverse Aquatic Copiotrophs.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophages play critical roles in impacting microbial community succession both ecologically and evolutionarily. Although the majority of phage genetic diversity has been increasingly unveiled, phages infecting members of the ecologically important genus Alteromonas remain poorly understood. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of a newly isolated alterophage, vB_AcoS-R7M (R7M), to characterize its life cycle traits, genomic features, and putative evolutionary origin. R7M harbors abundant genes identified as host-like auxiliary metabolic genes facilitating viral propagation. Genomic analysis suggested that R7M is distinct from currently known alterophages. Interestingly, R7M was found to share a set of similar characteristics with a number of siphophages infecting diverse a

SUBMITTER: Ma R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8265664 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature