ArticleISME communications2026
Boreal and subarctic freshwaters harbour a diversity of jumbophages.
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Abstract
Bacteriophages (phages) are major drivers of microbial evolution and ecology, yet their diversity and functional roles remain poorly characterized in many natural environments, such as in freshwater systems. In boreal and subarctic freshwater habitats, where bacteria are typically slow-growing and nutrient-limited, phages are predicted to have a critical role in host regulation and horizontal gene exchange. However, only a few isolates have been obtained from such environments, leaving the genetic and functional diversity of these phages largely unexplored. Here, we present a collection of 40 bacteriophages isolated from boreal lakes and rivers using a set of diverse freshwater bacterial hosts. Despite using conventional isolation methods, eight of the isolates possess genomes larger than 200 kilobases and are classified as jumbophages. All jumbophages exhibited myovirus morphology and comparatively slow infection dynamics. These jumbophages include the first known representatives infecting members of
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