Current Science

Nidhi R. Parmar ¹, Subhash J. Jakhesara ¹, Amitbikram Mohapatra ¹, Chaitanya G. Joshi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand 380 001, IN

Abstract

Viruses play a key role in compensating bacterial population in any ecosystem of the planet. Rumen, a highly diverse ecosystem, is still under-explored for viral communities and their metabolic capabilities. We carried out shotgun sequencing of enriched viral particles from rumen fluid collected from an Indian buffalo. The study revealed that well-assembled con-tigs of Newbler and Velvet got majority of assignments to virus domain that further revealed Caudovirales as a major order. A majority of the Firmicutes bacterio-phages were found in the study, which also confirm the presence of conserved domains such as peptidases against Firmicutes phages.

Keywords

Bacteriophage, Contigs, Gene Prediction, Peptidase, Virome.

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