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ArticleViruses2019

Evaluation of Sequencing Library Preparation Protocols for Viral Metagenomic Analysis from Pristine Aquifer Groundwaters.

René Kallies, Martin Hölzer, Rodolfo Brizola Toscan, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, John Anders, Manja Marz, Antonis Chatzinotas

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Article in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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7 authors.

René KalliesHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. rene.kallies@ufz.de.
Martin HölzerFriedrich Schiller University Jena, RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, 07743 Jena, Germany. martin.hoelzer@uni-jena.de.
Rodolfo Brizola ToscanHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. rodolfo.toscan@ufz.de.
Ulisses Nunes da RochaHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. ulisses.rocha@ufz.de.
John AndersHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. johnanders@posteo.de.
Manja MarzFriedrich Schiller University Jena, RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, 07743 Jena, Germany. manja@uni-jena.de.
Antonis ChatzinotasHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Environmental Microbiology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. antonis.chatzinotas@ufz.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral ecology of terrestrial habitats is yet-to be extensively explored, in particular the terrestrial subsurface. One problem in obtaining viral sequences from groundwater aquifer samples is the relatively low amount of virus particles. As a result, the amount of extracted DNA may not be sufficient for direct sequencing of such samples. Here we compared three DNA amplification methods to enrich viral DNA from three pristine limestone aquifer assemblages of the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory to evaluate potential bias created by the different amplification methods as determined by viral metagenomics. Linker amplification shotgun libraries resulted in lowest redundancy among the sequencing reads and showed the highest diversity, while multiple displacement amplification produced the highest number of contigs with the longest average contig size, suggesting a combination of these two methods is suitable for the successful enrichment of viral DNA from pristine groundwater samples. In total, we identified 27,173, 5,886 and 32,613 viral contigs from the three samples from which 11.92 to 18.65% could be assigned to taxonomy using blast. Among these, members of the

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Gene LibraryGenome, ViralMetagenomicsCaudoviralesDNA, ViralGermanyGroundwaterHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMyoviridaeNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPhylogenySiphoviridaeVirusesDNA, ViralAquaDivaaquifergroundwatersequencing library preparationviral metagenome

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PMID31141902
PMCPMC6631259

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