Marine viruses have important roles in microbial mortality, gene transfer, metabolic
reprogramming and biogeochemical cycling. In this Review, we discuss recent technological …

Over the past two decades, marine virology has progressed from a curiosity to an intensely
studied topic of critical importance to oceanography. At concentrations of approximately 10 …

Background Viruses are central to microbial community structure in all environments. The
ability to generate large metagenomic assemblies of mixed microbial and viral sequences …

Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth, and while most of
this diversity remains completely unexplored, advances in genome sequencing have …

Many heterotrophic bacteria are known to release extracellular vesicles, facilitating
interactions between cells and their environment from a distance. Vesicle production has not …

Viruses modulate microbial communities and alter ecosystem functions. However, due to
cultivation bottlenecks, specific virus–host interaction dynamics remain cryptic. In this study …

Viral metagenomics, or shotgun sequencing of purified viral particles, has revolutionized the
field of environmental virology by allowing the exploration of viral communities in a variety of …

Prokaryotes, bacteria and archaea, are the most abundant cellular organisms among those
sharing the planet Earth with human beings (among others). However, numerous ecological …

In this study, we investigated the abundance and diversity of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)
viruses in fecal samples from five healthy individuals through a combination of serial …

One consistent finding among studies using shotgun metagenomics to analyze whole viral
communities is that most viral sequences show no significant homology to known …