Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes
F. Tesson, A. Herve, M. Touchon, C. d'Humieres, J. Cury, A. Bernheim
The paper develops DefenseFinder to systematically analyze anti-phage systems in prokaryotes, revealing average of five systems per genome across 20,000 genomes.
bioRxiv · Sep 2, 2021Microbiology