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SUBMITTER: Carda-Dieguez M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4310352 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carda-Diéguez Miguel M Mizuno Carolina Megumi CM Ghai Rohit R Rodriguez-Valera Francisco F Amaro Carmen C
Frontiers in microbiology 20150129
In this work, we used the eel (Anguilla anguilla) as an animal model to test the hypothesis of Barr et al. (2013a,b) about the putative role of the epidermal mucosa as a phage enrichment layer. To this end, we analyzed the microbial content of the skin mucus of wild and farmed eels by using a metagenomic approach. We found a great abundance of replicating phage genomes (concatemers) in all the samples. They were assembled in four complete genomes of three Myovirus and one Podovirus. We also foun ...[more]