Table 1 Percent identity of vOTUs identified bioinformatically in this work, and Escherichia coli temperate phages isolated in previous work82

From: Prophages in the infant gut are pervasively induced and may modulate the functionality of their hosts

Sequence kept

Length (bp)

Sequence replaced

Length (bp)

% Identity

Escherichia coli phage Lambda ev017

50126

vOTU_10421

43620

99.2

Escherichia phage mEp460 ev081

45865

vOTU_01494

44384

99.6

Escherichia coli phage P2 2H1

32662

vOTU_09503

32101

99.9

vOTU_05922

32386

Escherichia coli phage P2 4C9

32150

99.9

Escherichia coli phage ESSI2 ev015

30584

vOTU_03208

26975

88.8

  1. The E.coli temperate phages had been isolated from the same samples used for metagenomic and virome sequencing, but sequenced independently. Five vOTUs were found to share sufficient percent identity to be classified as the same phage.
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