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Fig. 2 | Microbiome

Fig. 2

From: Optimizing protocols for extraction of bacteriophages prior to metagenomic analyses of phage communities in the human gut

Fig. 2

Bacteriophage recovery monitored in LIT (a), PEG (b), and TFF (c) protocols. The fecal samples were spiked with a set of bacteriophages, c2, ϕ29, and T4, and used as a process control for protocol optimization. The population of bacteriophages was monitored at each step by plaque assay (plaque-forming units (PFU)). Reductions in the curves of phage population indicate the degree of loss at a given step

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