Distinct oceanic microbiomes from viruses to protists located near the Antarctic Circumpolar Current [PDF]
, 2018 Microbes occupy diverse ecological niches and only through recent advances in next generation sequencing technologies have the true microbial diversity been revealed.
Andrea C. Highfield +14 more
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Diversity and Ecological Potentials of Marine Viruses Inhabiting Continental Shelf Seas
Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, 5 January 2026.To the best of the knowledge, this study provides the largest viral genome dataset from a continental shelf sea. It reveals that over half of vOTUs are novel, highlighting the remarkable viral novelty in the eastern continental shelf seas of China (ECSSC).
Xiaoyue Guo +9 more
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Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses
Nature Communications, 2018 Current knowledge of giant virus diversity is largely based on samples from aquatic environments. Here the authors employ cultivation-independent metagenomics and mini-metagenomics on forest soil and identify 16 novel giant virus genomes, some of which ...
Frederik Schulz +7 more
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A Student’s Guide to Giant Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes: From Acanthamoeba to Zooxanthellae
Viruses, 2017 The discovery of infectious particles that challenge conventional thoughts concerning “what is a virus” has led to the evolution a new field of study in the past decade.
Steven W. Wilhelm +18 more
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Importance of amoebae as a tool to isolate amoeba-resisting microorganisms and for their ecology and evolution: the Chlamydia paradigm. [PDF]
, 2014 Free-living amoebae are distributed worldwide and are frequently in contact with humans and animals. As cysts, they can survive in very harsh conditions and resist biocides and most disinfection procedures. Several microorganisms, called amoeba-resisting
Greub, G., Kebbi-Beghdadi, C.
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mBio, 2019 The nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) of eukaryotes (proposed order, “Megavirales”) include the families Poxviridae, Asfarviridae, Iridoviridae, Ascoviridae, Phycodnaviridae, Marseilleviridae, and Mimiviridae, as well as still unclassified ...
Disa Bäckström +9 more
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Cedratvirus lausannensis - digging into Pithoviridae diversity. [PDF]
, 2017 Amoeba-infecting viruses have raised scientists' interest due to their novel particle morphologies, their large genome size and their genomic content challenging previously established dogma.
Bertelli, C. +5 more
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Genome Characterization of the First Mimiviruses of Lineage C Isolated in Brazil
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 The family Mimiviridae, comprised by giant DNA viruses, has been increasingly studied since the isolation of the Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV), in 2003.
Felipe L. Assis +9 more
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Lausannevirus Seroprevalence among Asymptomatic Young Adults. [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives: The giant Lausannevirus was recently identified as a parasite of amoeba that replicates rapidly in these professional phagocytes. This study aimed at assessing Lausannevirus seroprevalence among asymptomatic young men in Switzerland and ...
Baud, D. +3 more
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Eukaryotic virus composition can predict the efficiency of carbon export in the global ocean [PDF]
, 2020 海洋ウイルスの種組成と炭素の鉛直輸送の相関を確認 --ウイルスによる地球環境の制御を示唆. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2021-01-15.The biological carbon pump, in which carbon fixed by photosynthesis is exported to the deep ocean through sinking, is a major process in Earth's carbon cycle. The proportion of primary
Blanc-Mathieu, Romain +16 more
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