Not Just a Passing Phage

Steven G Sutcliffe; Corinne F Maurice

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.011

Not Just a Passing Phage

Cell Host Microbe. 2019 Oct 9;26(4):448-449. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.011.

Authors

Steven G Sutcliffe¹, Corinne F Maurice²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: corinne.maurice@mcgill.ca.

PMID: 31600497
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.011

Abstract

The viral fraction of the human gut microbiota, or virome, has been studied in a limited capacity. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Shkoporov et al. (2019) perform a longitudinal study with database-independent clustering of bacteriophage genomes and de novo taxonomic classification, increasing our understanding of the virome.

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MeSH terms

Bacteriophages*
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Longitudinal Studies