Table 1.

Correlation between the relative abundance of dominant bacteriophage groups and the host bacterial genera in the three rice agroecosystems studied in China

Phages	NJ phage	NJ bacteria	NJ VBR	GZ phage	GZ bacteria	GZ VBR	JMS phage	JMS bacteria	JMS VBR	ρ	p
Achromobacter phage	1.247 ± 0.512	0.845 ± 0.035	1.476	0.252 ± 0.057	1.370 ± 0.039	0.184	0	1.854 ± 0.073	0	− 0.855	0.001
Vibrio phage	4.007 ± 1.022	0.024 ± 0.001	164.991	3.067 ± 0.668	0.031 ± 0.0003	98.523	0.254 ± 0.149	0.036 ± 0.001	7.1	− 0.856	0.001
Gordonia phage	3.759 ± 1.168	0.080 ± 0.003	47.181	0.507 ± 0.577	0.058 ± 0.002	8.705	20.029 ± 2.19	0.043 ± 0.001	469.223	− 0.708	0.01
Streptomyces phage	0.865 ± 0.365	1.977 ± 0.056	0.438	2.955 ± 0.823	1.127 ± 0.059	2.622	2.915 ± 1.688	1.136 ± 0.066	2.566	− 0.704	0.011
Enterobacter phage	15.889 ± 0.484	0.005 ± 0.0006	3050.137	0.128 ± 0.101	0.008 ± 0.0007	15.398	0	0.007 ± 0.001	0	− 0.684	0.014
Stenotrophomonas phage	7.319 ± 1.331	0.040 ± 0.001	184.654	3.905 ± 1.262	0.045 ± 0.001	87.197	0	0.044 ± 0.0005	0	− 0.591	0.043
Salmonella phage	5.390 ± 0.478	0.002 ± 0.0003	2515.275	0.739 ± 0.326	0.003 ± 0.0005	252.934	0	0.003 ± 0.0003	0	− 0.572	0.049
Paramecium bursaria phage	0.401 ± 0.276	0.0009 ± 0.0002	469.215	1.542 ± 0.206	0.0003 ± 0.000007	5020.489	10.980 ± 1.297	0.0004 ± 0.000005	27,382.718	− 0.509	0.091
Rhodococcus phage	1.827 ± 1.079	0.393 ± 0.012	4.652	3.983 ± 2.79	0.196 ± 0.009	20.372	3.930 ± 1.682	0.181 ± 0.012	21.693	− 0.357	0.254
Burkholderia phage	7.139 ± 1.112	0.226 ± 0.003	31.647	3.873 ± 0.770	0.347 ± 0.005	11.153	0.232 ± 0.186	0.232 ± 0.002	1.002	− 0.018	0.955
Caulobacter phage	0.374 ± 0.278	0.087 ± 0.004	4.293	0.972 ± 0.531	0.099 ± 0.002	9.751	0.701 ± 0.201	0.058 ± 0.002	12.128	0.204	0.525
Mycobacterium phage	8.404 ± 7.98	2.405 ± 0.133	3.495	5.269 ± 0.545	1.278 ± 0.087	4.122	5.679 ± 1.066	0.438 ± 0.027	12.961	0.263	0.409
Bacillus phage	2.181 ± 0.428	0.214 ± 0.002	10.170	1.106 ± 0.518	0.240 ± 0.002	4.609	2.670 ± 1.117	0.282 ± 0.005	9.452	0.332	0.291
Synechococcus phage	1.318 ± 0.377	0.059 ± 0.0005	22.252	2.990 ± 0.831	0.082 ± 0.001	36.361	3.436 ± 1.065	0.063 ± 0.001	54.548	0.343	0.275
Pseudomonas phage	6.964 ± 2.194	0.247 ± 0.013	28.207	5.904 ± 1.422	0.334 ± 0.007	17.651	2.486 ± 1.049	0.207 ± 0.002	11.984	0.477	0.116
Ralstonia phage	0.065 ± 0.089	0.063 ± 0.002	1.029	1.046 ± 0.516	0.117 ± 0.0008	8.933	0.501 ± 0.102	0.076 ± 0.001	6.636	0.563	0.046
Rhodoferax phage	0	0.027 ± 0.001	0	1.392 ± 0.386	0.054 ± 0.004	25.709	0	0.044 ± 0.0007	0	0.778	0.003
Actinoplanes phage	1.025 ± 0.482	0.298 ± 0.007	3.446	0.045 ± 0.089	0.147 ± 0.009	0.303	0.523 ± 0.295	0.173 ± 0.011	3.031	0.781	0.003
Arthrobacter phage	4.391 ± 0.892	0.400 ± 0.015	10.969	2.286 ± 0.579	0.118 ± 0.004	19.392	16.613 ± 1.227	0.547 ± 0.079	30.394	0.837	0.001

GZ: rice double cropping system in Guangzhou; JMS: rice single cropping system in Jiamusi; NJ: rice–wheat rotation cropping ecosystem in Nanjing. VBR: the ratio of viral relative abundance to bacterial relative abundance