bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.06.237214; this version posted August 6, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns 2 of agricultural soil viral communities 3 Christian Santos-Medellin1, Laura A. Zinke1, Anneliek M. ter Horst1, Danielle L. Gelardi2, 4 Sanjai J. Parikh2, and Joanne B. Emerson1,3 5 6 1Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, 7 Davis, California, USA, 95616 8 2Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, One 9 Shields Avenue, Davis, California, USA, 95616 10 3Genome Center, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California, 11 USA, 95616 12 13 Corresponding author information: 14 Joanne B. Emerson 15 Address: One Shields Ave, Davis, California, USA, 95616 16 Email:
[email protected] 17 Phone: 530-752-9848 18 19 Running title: “Spatiotemporal trends of soil viral communities” 20 21 Competing interests: Authors declare no conflict of interest 22 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.06.237214; this version posted August 6, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.