Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems

Bacteriophages and their hosts are involved in a constant evolutionary arms race that should lead to divergence between phage genes over time. Here, the authors recruit metagenomic reads to virus reference genomes and genome fragments in samples from cryoconite holes and show that phages with near-i...

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Auteurs principaux: Christopher M. Bellas, Declan C. Schroeder, Arwyn Edwards, Gary Barker, Alexandre M. Anesio
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:87e483e9dc33413790e4656412d76b4c2021-12-02T15:25:36ZFlexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems10.1038/s41467-020-18236-82041-1723https://doaj.org/article/87e483e9dc33413790e4656412d76b4c2020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18236-8https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Bacteriophages and their hosts are involved in a constant evolutionary arms race that should lead to divergence between phage genes over time. Here, the authors recruit metagenomic reads to virus reference genomes and genome fragments in samples from cryoconite holes and show that phages with near-identical core genomes maintain diversity by possession of numerous flexible gene modules, where homologous genes present in the pan-genome interchange to create new phage variants.Christopher M. BellasDeclan C. SchroederArwyn EdwardsGary BarkerAlexandre M. AnesioNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
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Christopher M. Bellas
Declan C. Schroeder
Arwyn Edwards
Gary Barker
Alexandre M. Anesio
Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
description Bacteriophages and their hosts are involved in a constant evolutionary arms race that should lead to divergence between phage genes over time. Here, the authors recruit metagenomic reads to virus reference genomes and genome fragments in samples from cryoconite holes and show that phages with near-identical core genomes maintain diversity by possession of numerous flexible gene modules, where homologous genes present in the pan-genome interchange to create new phage variants.
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author Christopher M. Bellas
Declan C. Schroeder
Arwyn Edwards
Gary Barker
Alexandre M. Anesio
author_facet Christopher M. Bellas
Declan C. Schroeder
Arwyn Edwards
Gary Barker
Alexandre M. Anesio
author_sort Christopher M. Bellas
title Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
title_short Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
title_full Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
title_fullStr Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
title_full_unstemmed Flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
title_sort flexible genes establish widespread bacteriophage pan-genomes in cryoconite hole ecosystems
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2020
url https://doaj.org/article/87e483e9dc33413790e4656412d76b4c
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