title: Metaviromes of Extracellular Soil Viruses along a Namib Desert Aridity Gradient.
abstract: The Namib Desert in southwest Africa is hyperarid and composed of distinct microbial communities affected by a longitudinal aridity gradient. Here, we report four soil metaviromes from the Namib Desert, assessed using deep sequencing of metavirome libraries prepared from DNA extracted from gravel plain surface soils.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.|Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.|Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zablocki
authors.affiliation: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.|Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
authors.forename: Evelien M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Adriaenssens
authors.affiliation: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.|Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frossard
authors.affiliation: Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Walvis Bay, Namibia.|School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seely
authors.affiliation: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.|Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Ramond
authors.affiliation: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa don.cowan@up.ac.za.
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cowan