Phage-plasmid-like elements are found throughout diverse environments and encode niche-specific functional traits

• James I. Mullet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia‌‌, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering‌‌, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8772-9800

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• Liqing Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia‌‌, United States of America

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• Amy Pruden ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  * E-mail: apruden@vt.edu (AP); clb21565@vt.edu (CLB)

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia‌‌, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3191-6244

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• Connor L. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: apruden@vt.edu (AP); clb21565@vt.edu (CLB)

  Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia‌‌, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biosciences, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5171-0211

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