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SUBMITTER: Bellas CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7468147 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bellas Christopher M CM Schroeder Declan C DC Edwards Arwyn A Barker Gary G Anesio Alexandre M AM
Nature communications 20200902 1
Bacteriophage genomes rapidly evolve via mutation and horizontal gene transfer to counter evolving bacterial host defenses; such arms race dynamics should lead to divergence between phages from similar, geographically isolated ecosystems. However, near-identical phage genomes can reoccur over large geographical distances and several years apart, conversely suggesting many are stably maintained. Here, we show that phages with near-identical core genomes in distant, discrete aquatic ecosystems mai ...[more]