Title |
Improved Bacteriophage Genome Data is Necessary for Integrating Viral and Bacterial Ecology
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Published in |
Microbial Ecology, November 2013
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DOI | 10.1007/s00248-013-0325-x |
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Authors |
Kyle Bibby |
Abstract |
The recent rise in "omics"-enabled approaches has lead to improved understanding in many areas of microbial ecology. However, despite the importance that viruses play in a broad microbial ecology context, viral ecology remains largely not integrated into high-throughput microbial ecology studies. A fundamental hindrance to the integration of viral ecology into omics-enabled microbial ecology studies is the lack of suitable reference bacteriophage genomes in reference databases-currently, only 0.001% of bacteriophage diversity is represented in genome sequence databases. This commentary serves to highlight this issue and to promote bacteriophage genome sequencing as a valuable scientific undertaking to both better understand bacteriophage diversity and move towards a more holistic view of microbial ecology. |
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