Host-associated and free-living phage communities differ profoundly in phylogenetic composition.
Phylogenetic profiling has been widely used for comparing bacterial communities, but has so far been impossible to apply to viruses because of the lack of a single marker gene analogous to 16S rRNA. Here we developed a reference tree approach for matching viral sequences and applied it to the larges...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3044705?pdf=render |