Prochlorococcus: the structure and function of collective diversity

SJ Biller, PM Berube, D Lindell… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant
photosynthetic organism on Earth. In this Review, we summarize our understanding of the …

Phages in nature

MRJ Clokie, AD Millard, AV Letarov, S Heaphy - Bacteriophage, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Phages are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and they are a ubiquitous feature
of prokaryotic existence. A bacteriophage is a virus which infects a bacterium. Archaea are …

Phage auxiliary metabolic genes and the redirection of cyanobacterial host carbon metabolism

LR Thompson, Q Zeng, L Kelly… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Cyanophages infecting the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
encode and express genes for the photosynthetic light reactions. Sequenced cyanophage …

Marine viruses: truth or dare

M Breitbart - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Ecological genomics of marine picocyanobacteria

DJ Scanlan, M Ostrowski, S Mazard… - Microbiology and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus numerically
dominate the picophytoplankton of the world ocean, making a key contribution to global …

vConTACT: an iVirus tool to classify double-stranded DNA viruses that infect Archaea and Bacteria

B Bolduc, HB Jang, G Doulcier, ZQ You, S Roux… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Taxonomic classification of archaeal and bacterial viruses is challenging, yet also
fundamental for developing a predictive understanding of microbial ecosystems. Recent …

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 …

Expanding standards in viromics: in silico evaluation of dsDNA viral genome identification, classification, and auxiliary metabolic gene curation

AA Pratama, B Bolduc, AA Zayed, ZP Zhong, J Guo… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Viruses influence global patterns of microbial diversity and nutrient cycles.
Though viral metagenomics (viromics), specifically targeting dsDNA viruses, has been …

Genomic analysis of oceanic cyanobacterial myoviruses compared with T4‐like myoviruses from diverse hosts and environments

MB Sullivan, KH Huang… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
T4‐like myoviruses are ubiquitous, and their genes are among the most abundant
documented in ocean systems. Here we compare 26 T4‐like genomes, including 10 from …

A simple and efficient method for concentration of ocean viruses by chemical flocculation

SG John, CB Mendez, L Deng, B Poulos… - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean viruses alter ecosystems through host mortality, horizontal gene transfer and by
facilitating remineralization of limiting nutrients. However, the study of wild viral populations …