A remarkably diverse and well-organized virus community in a filter-feeding oyster.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Viruses play critical roles in the marine environment because of their interactions with an extremely broad range of potential hosts. Many studies of viruses in seawater have been published, but viruses that inhabit marine animals have been largely neglected. Oysters are keystone species in coastal ecosystems, yet as filter-feeding bivalves with very large roosting numbers and species co-habitation, it is not clear what role they play in marine virus transmission and coastal microbiome regulation.

Results

Here, we report a Dataset of Oyster Virome (DOV) that contains 728,784 nonredundant viral operational taxonomic unit contigs (≥ 800 bp) and 3473 high-quality viral genomes, enabling the first comprehensive overview of both DNA and RNA viral communities in the oys

SUBMITTER: Jiang JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9825006 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature