Marine viruses and global climate change

R Danovaro, C Corinaldesi, A Dell'Anno… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Sea-surface warming, sea-ice melting and related freshening, changes in circulation and
mixing regimes, and ocean acidification induced by the present climate changes are …

Factors affecting virus dynamics and microbial host–virus interactions in marine environments

KDA Mojica, CPD Brussaard - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Marine microorganisms constitute the largest percentage of living biomass and serve as the
major driving force behind nutrient and energy cycles. While viruses only comprise a small …

Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils

C Santos-Medellín, SJ Blazewicz… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
As central members of soil trophic networks, viruses have the potential to drive substantial
microbial mortality and nutrient turnover. Pinpointing viral contributions to terrestrial …

A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes

JS Weitz, CA Stock, SW Wilhelm, L Bourouiba… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Viral lysis of microbial hosts releases organic matter that can then be assimilated by
nontargeted microorganisms. Quantitative estimates of virus-mediated recycling of carbon in …

Novel viral communities potentially assisting in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur metabolism in the upper slope sediments of Mariana Trench

J Zhao, H Jing, Z Wang, L Wang, H Jian, R Zhang… - …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses are ubiquitous in the oceans. Even in the deep sediments of the Mariana Trench,
viruses have high productivity. However, little is known about their species composition and …

The ecology of viruses that infect eukaryotic algae

SM Short - Environmental Microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Because viruses of eukaryotic algae are incredibly diverse, sweeping generalizations about
their ecology are rare. These obligate parasites infect a range of algae and their diversity …

Virus decomposition provides an important contribution to benthic deep-sea ecosystem functioning

A Dell'Anno, C Corinaldesi… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Viruses are key biological agents of prokaryotic mortality in the world oceans, particularly in
deep-sea ecosystems where nearly all of the prokaryotic C production is transformed into …

Mechanisms of multi-strain coexistence in host–phage systems with nested infection networks

LF Jover, MH Cortez, JS Weitz - Journal of theoretical biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages) coexist in natural environments forming complex
infection networks. Recent empirical findings suggest that phage–bacteria infection …

Extracellular DNA as a genetic recorder of microbial diversity in benthic deep-sea ecosystems

C Corinaldesi, M Tangherlini, E Manea, A Dell'Anno - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Extracellular DNA in deep-sea sediments represents a major repository of genes, which
previously belonged to living organisms. However, the extent to which these extracellular …

Phototrophic marine benthic microbiomes: the ecophysiology of these biological entities

LJ Stal, H Bolhuis, MS Cretoiu - Environmental microbiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Phototrophic biofilms are multispecies, self‐sustaining and largely closed microbial
ecosystems. They form macroscopic structures such as microbial mats and stromatolites …