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Genome Announc. 2017 Jan 12;5(2). doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01470-16.

Metaviromes of Extracellular Soil Viruses along a Namib Desert Aridity Gradient.

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Olivier Zablocki, Evelien M Adriaenssens, Aline Frossard, Mary Seely, Jean-Baptiste Ramond, Don Cowan

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
  2. Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
  3. Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
  4. Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
  5. Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Walvis Bay, Namibia.
  6. School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  7. Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa [email protected].

PMID: 28082503 PMCID: PMC5256219 DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01470-16

Abstract

The Namib Desert in southwest Africa is hyperarid and composed of distinct microbial communities affected by a longitudinal aridity gradient. Here, we report four soil metaviromes from the Namib Desert, assessed using deep sequencing of metavirome libraries prepared from DNA extracted from gravel plain surface soils.

Copyright © 2017 Zablocki et al.

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