PRJNA280079
A metagenomics study of the rumen virome of the sheep and the goat
The rumen is an important complex ecosystem with microbes responsible for fermentation, nutrition and energy production in ruminants. A variety of viruses have been shown to exist in the rumen, of which this project sought to identify by developing a robust viral isolation and enrichment protocol and using high throughput sequencing (HTS). Most of the rumen viruses were phages, important in maintaining the rumen microbial populations under its carrying capacity.