Viruses, and more particularly phages (viruses that infect bacteria), represent one of the
most abundant living entities in aquatic and terrestrial environments. The biogeography of …

Viruses are fundamental to ecosystems ranging from oceans to humans, yet our ability to
study them is bottlenecked by the lack of ecologically relevant isolates, resulting in …

Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an
unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the …

There are an estimated 10 31 viruses on Earth, most of which are phages that infect
bacteria. Metagenomic analyses have shown that environmental viral communities are …

Our current knowledge of the virosphere in deep‐sea sediments remains rudimentary. Here
we investigated viral diversity at both gene and genomic levels in deep‐sea sediments of …

Bacteriophages are ubiquitous and numerous parasites of bacteria and play a critical
evolutionary role in virtually every ecosystem, yet our understanding of the extent of the …

Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities in the biosphere, and this dynamic
and old population is, not surprisingly, highly diverse genetically. Relative to bacterial …

Viruses are omnipresent and extraordinarily abundant in the microbial ecosystems of water,
soil, and sediment. In nearly every reported case for aquatic and porous media …

Natural phage communities are reservoirs of the greatest uncharacterized genetic diversity
on Earth. Yet, identical phage sequences can be found in extremely different environments …

Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere
and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity. They play a critical role in the …