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SUBMITTER: Laurenceau R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7852597 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Laurenceau Raphaël R Raho Nicolas N Forget Mathieu M Arellano Aldo A AA Chisholm Sallie W SW
The ISME journal 20200914 1
Prochlorococcus cells are the numerically dominant phototrophs in the open ocean. Cyanophages that infect them are a notable fraction of the total viral population in the euphotic zone, and, as vehicles of horizontal gene transfer, appear to drive their evolution. Here we examine the propensity of three cyanophages-a podovirus, a siphovirus, and a myovirus-to mispackage host DNA in their capsids while infecting Prochlorococcus, the first step in phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer. We find t ...[more]