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Novel Freshwater Cyanophages Provide New Insights into Evolutionary Relationships between Freshwater and Marine Cyanophages

Published:2021-10-31 Issue:2 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Zhang Dong¹,He Yiliang²,Gin Karina Yew-Hoong¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. NUS Environmental Research Institute (E2S2-CREATE), National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

2. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

This study expands the current knowledge on freshwater cyanophage isolates and cyanophage genetic diversity, indicating that freshwater and marine cyanophages infecting Synechococcus spp. may share close genetic similarity and evolutionary relationships.

Funder

National Research Foundation Singapore

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/Spectrum.00593-21

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