Chapter title |
Comparative Analyses of Bacteriophage Genomes.
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Chapter number | 14 |
Book title |
Comparative Genomics
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2024
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-0716-3838-5_14 |
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Book ISBNs |
978-1-07-163837-8, 978-1-07-163838-5
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Authors |
Fernando Pacheco Nobre Rossi, Vinicius Sousa Flores, Guillermo Uceda-Campos, Deyvid Emanuel Amgarten, João Carlos Setubal, Aline Maria da Silva, Rossi, Fernando Pacheco Nobre, Flores, Vinicius Sousa, Uceda-Campos, Guillermo, Amgarten, Deyvid Emanuel, Setubal, João Carlos, da Silva, Aline Maria |
Abstract |
Bacterial viruses (bacteriophages or phages) are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on Earth. There is a renewed worldwide interest in phage-centered research motivated by their enormous potential as antimicrobials to cope with multidrug-resistant pathogens. An ever-growing number of complete phage genomes are becoming available, derived either from newly isolated phages (cultivated phages) or recovered from metagenomic sequencing data (uncultivated phages). Robust comparative analysis is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of genotypic variations of phages and their related evolutionary processes, and to investigate the interaction mechanisms between phages and their hosts. In this chapter, we present a protocol for phage comparative genomics employing tools selected out of the many currently available, focusing on complete genomes of phages classified in the class Caudoviricetes. This protocol provides accurate identification of similarities, differences, and patterns among new and previously known complete phage genomes as well as phage clustering and taxonomic classification. |
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