Prophage predictions
Posted on 2023-11-15 - 05:52 authored by Robert Edwards
Phages dominate every ecosystem on the planet. While virulent phages sculpt the microbiome by killing their bacterial hosts, temperate phages provide unique growth advantages to their hosts through lysogenic conversion. Many prophages benefit their host, and prophages are responsible for genotypic and phenotypic differences that separate individual microbial strains. However, the microbes also endure a cost to maintain those phages: additional DNA to replicate and proteins to transcribe and translate. We have never quantified those benefits and costs. Here, we analysed over two and a half million prophages from over half a million bacterial genome assemblies
CITE THIS COLLECTION
Edwards, Robert (2023). Prophage predictions. Flinders University. Collection. https://doi.org/10.25451/flinders.c.6629843
or
Select your citation style and then place your mouse over the citation text to select it.
FUNDING
Computational and Experimental Resources for Virome Analysis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (CERVAID)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases