Biodiversity of Environmental Virus Microbiome by Comparative Metagenomics
In the present study, a metagenomic analysis was carried out to explore the size and composition of viraldiversity in Ganges water. Further comparison of virome sequences from Ganges water with variousother aquatic environments including Yamuna river was also performed. Particular emphasiswas placed on bacteriophages because of their ecological role in regulating bacterial populationsand their proposed contribution to the unique antibacterial characteristics associated with the riverGanges.