Open AccessA Novel and Ubiquitous Marine Methylophage Provides Insights into Viral-Host Coevolution and Possible Host-Range Expansion in Streamlined Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria
Author(s) -
Holger H Buchholz,
Luis M. Bolaños,
Ashley Bell,
Michelle L. Michelsen,
Michael J. Allen,
Ben Temperton
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
applied and environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 324
eISSN - 1070-6291
pISSN - 0099-2240
DOI - 10.1128/aem.00255-22
Subject(s) - biology , gammaproteobacteria , host (biology) , marine bacteriophage , clade , metagenomics , arbovirus , ecology , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , bacteria , gene , genetics , virus , 16s ribosomal rna
Isolation and cultivation of viruses are the foundations on which the mechanistic understanding of virus-host interactions and parameterization of bioinformatic tools for viral ecology are based. This study isolated and characterized the first myophage known to infect the OM43 clade, expanding our knowledge of this understudied group of microbes.