A compendium of ruminant gastrointestinal phage genomes revealed a higher proportion of lytic phages than in any other environments
Microbiome(2024)
Abstract
Ruminants are important livestock animals that have a unique digestive system comprising multiple stomach compartments. Despite significant progress in the study of microbiome in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) sites of ruminants, we still lack an understanding of the viral community of ruminants. Here, we surveyed its viral ecology using 2333 samples from 10 sites along the GIT of 8 ruminant species. We present the Unified Ruminant Phage Catalogue (URPC), a comprehensive survey of phages in the GITs of ruminants including 64,922 non-redundant phage genomes. We characterized the distributions of the phage genomes in different ruminants and GIT sites and found that most phages were organism-specific. We revealed that 60
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Key words
Ruminants,Gastrointestinal tract,Microbiome,Virome,Bacteriophages,Methane production
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