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Host-Virus Interaction: From Metagenomics to Single-Cell Genomics

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Synonyms

DNA packaging gene; Large terminase subunit gene; TerL

Definition

dPCR (digital PCR) is a PCR reaction performed in a nanoliter or subnanoliter volume making it possible to detect single molecules.

MetaCAT (metagenome cluster analysis tool) is a metagenome data mining tool that uses an iterative dynamic clustering approach to identify the most abundant genes in a given metagenome with respect to a reference dataset containing potentially homologous genes.

Bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria (phage for short).

Prophage is a phage genome that is integrated into the bacterial genome or exists in the form of a plasmid within the cell.

Introduction

It is widely appreciated today that viruses are a dominant and critical part of Earth’s biosphere. Yet despite the major advances in the study of environmental viruses in most cases, our knowledge of which viruses go with which hosts is meager. In the classic phage isolation technique, known as the plaque...

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  1. TRON – Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, 55131, Germany

    Arbel D. Tadmor

  2. Departments of Applied Physics and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Rob Phillips

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    Karen E. Nelson

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Tadmor, A.D., Phillips, R. (2013). Host-Virus Interaction: From Metagenomics to Single-Cell Genomics. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_792-2

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