Rat ceca mobilomes from hospital sewer and the pristine Falkland Islands reveal a huge diversity of small unknown circular sequences.. 12 Rat cecum mobilomes

To investigate impact of human activities on rat cecal mobilomes, specimens were collected at the pristine Falkland Islands and from a hospital sewer in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mobilomes were constructed by removal of chromosomal DNA and sequenced. Circular contigs were identified with a validated pipeline and the sequences annotated based on presence of complete genes similar to plasmid replication, mobilization or stability or viral replication or capsid.