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ArticlemSystems2021

A Novel Group of Promiscuous Podophages Infecting Diverse Gammaproteobacteria from River Communities Exhibits Dynamic Intergenus Host Adaptation.

Daniel Cazares, Adrian Cazares, Wendy Figueroa, Gabriel Guarneros, Robert A Edwards, Pablo Vinuesa

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Article in mSystems, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Daniel CazaresCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico cazares@comunidad.unam.mx vinuesa@ccg.unam.mx.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-3780
Adrian Cazares *EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Wendy Figueroa *Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Gabriel GuarnerosDepartamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, CINVESTAV IPN, Mexico City, Mexico.
Robert A EdwardsFAME, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Pablo VinuesaCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico cazares@comunidad.unam.mx vinuesa@ccg.unam.mx.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXCentro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MXEuropean Bioinformatics Institute · GBFlinders University · AUUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phages are generally described as species specific or even strain specific, implying an inherent limitation for some to be maintained and spread in diverse bacterial communities. Moreover, phage isolation and host range determination rarely consider the phage ecological context, likely biasing our notion on phage specificity. Here we isolated and characterized a novel group of six promiscuous phages, named Atoyac, existing in rivers and sewage by using a diverse collection of over 600 bacteria retrieved from the same environments as potential hosts. These podophages isolated from different regions in Mexico display a remarkably broad host range, infecting bacteria from six genera:

Indexed as

bacteriophagesenvironmental microbiologyexperimental evolutionmicrobial ecologyphage-bacterium interactions

Identifiers

PMID33531404
PMCPMC7857530
OpenAlexW3126975815

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