Genome Sequences of Microviruses Identified in a Sample from a Sewage Treatment Oxidation Pond

Simona Kraberger; Joshua Schreck; Craig Galilee; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/MRA.00373-21

Genome Sequences of Microviruses Identified in a Sample from a Sewage Treatment Oxidation Pond

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 13;10(19):e00373-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00373-21.

Authors

Simona Kraberger¹, Joshua Schreck², Craig Galilee³, Arvind Varsani^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA simona.kraberger@asu.edu arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
² The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
³ School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Oxidation ponds are often used in the treatment of sewage as an aeration step prior to discharge. We identified 99 microvirus genomes from a sample from a sewage oxidation pond. This diverse group of microviruses expands our knowledge of bacteriophages associated with sewage oxidation pond ecosystems.