Honey-bee–associated prokaryotic viral communities reveal wide viral diversity and a profound metabolic coding potential
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921859117
Abstract: Significance This study uses viral-like particle purification and subsequent unbiased genome sequencing to identify prokaryotic viruses associated with Apis mellifera. Interestingly, bacteriophages found in honey bees show a high diversity and span different viral taxa.… read more here.
Keywords: viral communities; diversity; prokaryotic viral; honey ... See more keywords
Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats
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DOI: 10.1111/mec.15250
Abstract: Abstract Viruses infect all forms of life and play critical roles as agents of disease, drivers of biochemical cycles and sources of genetic diversity for their hosts. Our understanding of viral diversity derives primarily from… read more here.
Keywords: viral communities; viral diversity; diversity; demographic environmental ... See more keywords
Extreme Viral Partitioning in a Marine-Derived High Arctic Lake
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DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00334-20
Abstract: The Arctic is warming at an accelerating pace, and the rise in temperature has increasing impacts on the Arctic biome. Lakes are integrators of their surroundings and thus excellent sentinels of environmental change. Despite their… read more here.
Keywords: arctic ocean; change; lake; high arctic ... See more keywords
DNase Treatment Improves Viral Enrichment in Agricultural Soil Viromes
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DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00614-21
Abstract: Viromics is becoming an increasingly popular method for characterizing soil viral communities. DNase treatment of the viral size fraction prior to DNA extraction is meant to reduce contaminating free DNA and is a common step… read more here.
Keywords: dna; treatment; soil; dnase treatment ... See more keywords
Novel Viral Communities Potentially Assisting in Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in the Upper Slope Sediments of Mariana Trench
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DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01358-21
Abstract: The Mariana Trench harbors a substantial number of infective viral particles. However, very little is known about the identity, survival strategy, and potential functions of viruses in the trench sediments. ABSTRACT Viruses are ubiquitous in… read more here.
Keywords: carbon; novel viral; viral communities; sediments mariana ... See more keywords
Spatiotemporal Shift of T4-Like Phage Community Structure in the Three Largest Estuaries of China
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DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.05203-22
Abstract: Viruses are ubiquitous but largely uncharacterized members of aquatic environments that cause significant mortality in microbial communities. Recent large-scale oceanic projects have greatly advanced our understanding of viral ecology in marine environments, but those studies… read more here.
Keywords: ecology; viral communities; estuarine ecosystems; community ... See more keywords
Dietary energy drives the dynamic response of bovine rumen viral communities
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DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0374-3
Abstract: BackgroundRumen microbes play a greater role in host energy acquisition than that of gut-associated microbes in monogastric animals. Although genome-enabled advancements are providing access to the vast diversity of uncultivated microbes, our understanding of variables… read more here.
Keywords: dietary energy; viral communities; rumen viral; energy ... See more keywords
Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10715
Abstract: Viruses play an essential role in shaping the structure and function of ecological communities. Marine sponges have the capacity to filter large volumes of ‘virus-laden’ seawater through their bodies and host dense communities of microbial… read more here.
Keywords: taxonomic functional; viral communities; analysis viral; marine sponges ... See more keywords