Rumen Virome:An Assessment of Viral Communities and their Functions in the Rumen of an Indian Buffalo

Viruses play a key role in compensating bacterial population in any ecosystem of the planet. Rumen, a highly diverse ecosystem, is still under-explored for viral communities and their metabolic capabilities. We carried out shotgun sequencing of enriched viral particles from rumen fluid collected from an Indian buffalo. The study revealed that well-assembled con-tigs of Newbler and Velvet got majority of assignments to virus domain that further revealed Caudovirales as a major order. A majority of the Firmicutes bacterio-phages were found in the study, which also confirm the presence of conserved domains such as peptidases against Firmicutes phages.