Genome sequencing of a collection of phages infecting Vibrio crassostreae isolated during a three month time serie sampling (28/06/21 to 15/09/21) in an oyster farm (France).

The overarching goal of our project is to investigate the molecular mechanisms and evolution of bacteria–phage interactions in nature. The oyster's pathogen V. crassostreae and its phages constiture a interesting model to study the evolution of natural populations in 'real time'. We performed a time serie sampling of two species of vibrio, V. crassostreae (see Piel et al, 2021) and V. chagasii (see Cahier et al, 2023). We significantly scaled up our sampling in summer 2021 with 300 V. crassostreae and 1200 phages isolates (present set of data).