Metagenomics has changed the face of virus discovery by enabling the accurate
identification of viral genome sequences without requiring isolation of the viruses. As a …

Aquatic viruses include infected viruses in aquatic animals, plants and microorganisms, and
free-floating viruses (virioplankton) in water environments. In the last three decades, a huge …

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 …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth and play key roles in host
ecology, evolution, and horizontal gene transfer. Despite recent progress in viral …

The persistent inertia in the ability to culture environmentally abundant microbes from
aquatic ecosystems represents an obstacle in disentangling the complex web of ecological …

The deep sea is a massive, largely oligotrophic ecosystem, stretched over nearly 65% of the
planet's surface. Deep-sea planktonic communities are almost completely dependent upon …

Metagenomics has dramatically expanded the known virosphere, but freshwater viral
diversity and their ecological interaction with hosts remain poorly understood. Here, we …

Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the oceans, the majority of which
infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages. Yet, the bulk of bacteriophages form part …

Viral diversity and virus-host interactions in oxygen-starved regions of the ocean, also
known as oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), remain relatively unexplored. Microbial …

Background Cyanophages, viruses that infect cyanobacteria, are globally abundant in the
ocean's euphotic zone and are a potentially important cause of mortality for marine …