A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria
@article{Kauffman2018AML, title={A major lineage of non-tailed dsDNA viruses as unrecognized killers of marine bacteria}, author={Kathryn M. Kauffman and Fatima Aysha Hussain and Joy Y. Yang and Philip Arevalo and Julia M. Brown and William K. Chang and David VanInsberghe and Joseph Elsherbini and Radhey Shyam Sharma and Michael Cutler and Libusha Kelly and Martin F. Polz}, journal={Nature}, year={2018}, volume={554}, pages={118-122} }
The most abundant viruses on Earth are thought to be double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that infect bacteria. However, tailed bacterial dsDNA viruses (Caudovirales), which dominate sequence and culture collections, are not representative of the environmental diversity of viruses. In fact, non-tailed viruses often dominate ocean samples numerically, raising the fundamental question of the nature of these viruses. Here we characterize a group of marine dsDNA non-tailed viruses with short 10-kb…
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