Marine Science Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-8-2016
Keywords
ssDNA viruses, Viral metagenomics, Environmental virology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2777
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Viruses strongly influence microbial population dynamics and ecosystem functions. However, our ability to quantitatively evaluate those viral impacts is limited to the few cultivated viruses and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viral genomes captured in quantitative viral metagenomes (viromes). This leaves the ecology of non-dsDNA viruses nearly unknown, including single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses that have been frequently observed in viromes, but not quantified due to amplification biases in sequencing library preparations (Multiple Displacement Amplification, Linker Amplification or Tagmentation).
METHODS: Here we designed mock viral communities including both ssDNA and dsDNA viruses to evaluate the capability of a sequencing library preparation approach including an Adaptase step prior to Linker Amplification for quantitative amplification of both dsDNA and ssDNA templates. We then surveyed aquatic samples to provide first estimates of the abundance of ssDNA viruses.
RESULTS: Mock community experiments confirmed the biased nature of existing library preparation methods for ssDNA templates (either largely enriched or selected against) and showed that the protocol using Adaptase plus Linker Amplification yielded viromes that were ±1.8-fold quantitative for ssDNA and dsDNA viruses. Application of this protocol to community virus DNA from three freshwater and three marine samples revealed that ssDNA viruses as a whole represent only a minor fraction (
DISCUSSION: Together these findings provide empirical data for a new virome library preparation protocol, and a first estimate of ssDNA virus abundance in aquatic systems.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
PeerJ, v.4, art. e2777
Scholar Commons Citation
Roux, Simon; Solonenko, Natalie E; Dang, Vinh T; Poulos, Bonnie T; Schwenck, Sarah M; Goldsmith, Dawn B; Coleman, Maureen L; Breitbart, Mya; and Sullivan, Matthew B, "Towards quantitative viromics for both double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses." (2016). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 232.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/232
