Multidimensional metrics for estimating phage abundance, distribution, gene density, and sequence coverage in metagenomes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Aziz, Ramy K ^a,b,c   Dwivedi, Bhakti ^d,e   Akhter, Sajia ^a,f   Breitbart, Mya ^d   Edwards, Robert A ^a,c  

^a San Diego State University   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Ecology; Genomics; Metagenomics; Virus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BORDETELLA; CHLAMYDIA; CYANOPHAGE; DENSITY; ECOLOGY; GENE DENSITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INOVIRIDAE; METAGENOME; METRIC SYSTEM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; RNA PHAGE; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84931265832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00381     Document Type: Article

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