Researcher asks if common bacteriophages in the human gut can help to identify contaminated water
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 15:01
in Biology & Nature
Believed by some to be the most abundant known virus in the human digestive system, cross-assembly phage (shortened to crAssphage) remained undetected until researchers sorting through hundreds of thousands of lines of DNA accidentally stumbled upon its circular viral genome of about 97,000 base pairs. A study published in the journal Nature Communications officially introduced crAssphage to the world in the summer of 2014.
