A new family of globally distributed lytic roseophages with unusual deoxythymidine to deoxyuridine substitution.

ABSTRACT: Marine bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) are abundant biological entities that are vital for shaping microbial diversity, impacting marine ecosystem function, and driving host evolution.^1-3 The marine roseobacter clade (MRC) is a ubiquitous group of heterotrophic bacteria^4,5 that are important in the elemental cycling of various nitrogen, sulfur, carbon, and phosphorus compounds.^6-10 Bacteriophages infecting MRC (roseophages) have thus attracted much attention and more than 30 roseophages have been isolated,^11-13 the majority of which belong to the N4-like group (Podoviridae family) or the Chi-like group (Siphoviridae family), although ssDNA-containing roseophages are also known.¹⁴ In our attempts to isolate lyti

SUBMITTER: Rihtman B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8323127 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature