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Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome.
Nature microbiology - 1 Jul 2021
Nayfach Stephen, Páez-Espino David, Call Lee, Low Soo Jen, Sberro Hila, Ivanova Natalia N, Proal Amy D, Fischbach Michael A, Bhatt Ami S, Hugenholtz Philip, Kyrpides Nikos C
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages have important roles in the ecology of the human gut microbiome but are under-represented in reference databases. To address this problem, we assembled the Metagenomic Gut Virus catalogue that comprises 189,680 viral genomes from 11,810 publicly available human stool metagenomes. Over 75% of genomes represent double-stranded DNA phages that infect members of the Bacteroidia and Clostridia classes....
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