A catalog of 48,425 nonredundant viruses from oral metagenomes expands the horizon of the human oral virome

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The human oral cavity is a hotspot of numerous, mostly unexplored, viruses that are important for maintaining oral health and microbiome homeostasis. Here, we analyzed 2,792 publicly available oral metagenomes and proposed the Oral Virus Database (OVD) comprising 48,425 nonredundant viral genomes (≥5 kbp). The OVD catalog substantially expanded the known phylogenetic diversity and host specificity of oral...

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