| Literature DB >> 26458512 |
Olivier Zablocki1, Lonnie van Zyl2, Evelien M Adriaenssens1, Enrico Rubagotti3, Marla Tuffin2, Stephen C Cary4, Don Cowan1.
Abstract
The metaviromes from 2 different Antarctic terrestrial soil niches have been analyzed. Both hypoliths (microbial assemblages beneath transluscent rocks) and surrounding open soils showed a high level diversity of tailed phages, viruses of algae and amoeba, and virophage sequences. Comparisons of other global metaviromes with the Antarctic libraries showed a niche-dependent clustering pattern, unrelated to the geographical origin of a given metavirome. Within the Antarctic open soil metavirome, a putative circularly permuted, ∼42kb dsDNA virus genome was annotated, showing features of a temperate phage possessing a variety of conserved protein domains with no significant taxonomic affiliations in current databases.Entities:
Keywords: Antarctica; Caudovirales; hypolith; metaviromics; temperate phage; virophage
Year: 2014 PMID: 26458512 PMCID: PMC4589984 DOI: 10.4161/21597081.2014.980125
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bacteriophage ISSN: 2159-7073