Census of the Viral Metagenome within an Activated Sludge Microbial Assemblage

Larissa C. Parsley, Erin J. Consuegra, Stephen J. Thomas, Jaysheel Bhavsar, Andrew M. Land, Nadia N. Bhuiyan, Mustafa Mazher, R. Jordan Waters, K. Eric Wommack, Willie F. Harper,

Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2010 · 55 citations · 17 references

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The viral metagenome within an activated sludge microbial assemblage was sampled using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods and compared to the diversity of activated sludge bacterial taxa. A total of 70 unique cultured bacterial isolates, 24 cultured bacteriophages, 829 bacterial metagenomic clones of 16S rRNA genes, and 1,161 viral metagenomic clones were subjected to a phylogenetic analysis.

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