Closely Related Vibrio alginolyticus Strains Encode an Identical Repertoire of Caudovirales-Like Regions and Filamentous Phages

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 12; no. 12; p. 1359
• Main Authors: Chibani, Cynthia Maria, Hertel, Robert, Hoppert, Michael, Liesegang, Heiko, Wendling, Carolin Charlotte
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 27.11.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Animals; Bacteria; Bacterial Load; bacteriophages; Caudovirales - classification; Caudovirales - genetics; Caudovirales - isolation & purification; Cholera; Climate change; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA, Viral; ecotypes; filamentous phages; Fish Diseases - microbiology; Genome, Bacterial; Genomes; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; humans; Inoviridae; Inovirus - classification; Inovirus - genetics; Inovirus - isolation & purification; juveniles; Morphogenesis; Pathogens; Phages; prophages; sequence homology; Strains (organisms); Vibrio alginolyticus; Vibrio alginolyticus - classification; Vibrio alginolyticus - genetics; Vibrio alginolyticus - pathogenicity; Vibrio alginolyticus - virology; Vibrio cholerae; Vibrio Infections - veterinary; Vibrio virulence; vibriophages; Virulence; zot; Germany; prophages; Vibrio virulence; Inoviridae; vibriophages; zot; filamentous phages

Many filamentous vibriophages encode virulence genes that lead to the emergence of pathogenic bacteria. Most genomes of filamentous vibriophages characterized up until today were isolated from human pathogens. Despite genome-based predictions that environmental Vibrios also contain filamentous phage...