Article
Classification and quantification of bacteriophage taxa in human gut metagenomes.
The ISME journal - 1 Jul 2014
Waller Alison S, Yamada Takuji, Kristensen David M, Kultima Jens Roat, Sunagawa Shinichi, Koonin Eugene V, Bork Peer
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages have key roles in microbial communities, to a large extent shaping the taxonomic and functional composition of the microbiome, but data on the connections between phage diversity and the composition of communities are scarce. Using taxon-specific marker genes, we identified and monitored 20 viral taxa in 252 human gut metagenomic samples, mostly at the level of genera. On average, five phage taxa...
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