Fig. 2: Targeted discovery of plasmid-dependent phages reveals expanded diversity of alphatectiviruses.
From: Diverse and abundant phages exploit conjugative plasmids
a Maximum likelihood tree of all known alphatectiviruses (generated with the whole genome, 14,888 sites). Branch tips in red represent the novel phages isolated in this study. All other colors (highlighted in the enlarged section of the tree) represent all previously known representatives of this phage group. b Map showing the site and isolation year of phages shown in (a). This collection includes and vastly expands the previously known diversity, despite sampling being more geographically and temporally constrained. c Nucleotide diversity across our collection of alphatectivirus genomes (n = 51). The genome map is colored to better display the nucleotide diversity value inside the gene body. Red coloration in the gene arrow symbols indicates high nucleotide diversity and blue indicates low nucleotide diversity, values correspond to the histogram above.
