Abundance and diversity of phages, microbial taxa and antibiotic resistance genes in the sediments of the river Ganges through metagenomic approach

Abstract

14In the present study, we have analyzed the metagenomic DNA from the pooled sediment 15 sample of the river Ganges to explore the abundance and diversity of phages, microbial 16 community and antibiotic resistance genes. Utilizing data from Illumina platform, 4174 17 (~0.0013%) reads were classified for the 285 different DNA viruses largely dominated by the 18 group of 260 distinctive phages (3602 reads, ~86.3%). Among all, Microcystis (782 hits), 19