Characteristics of Wetting-Induced Bacteriophage Blooms in Biological Soil Crust. [PDF]
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are photosynthetic "hot spots" in deserts and cover ∼12% of the Earth's terrestrial surface, and yet they face an uncertain future given expected shifts in rainfall events.
Northen, Trent R +4 more
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Initial Mapping of the New York City Wastewater Virome
Bacteriophages are abundant members of all microbiomes studied to date, influencing microbial communities through interactions with their bacterial hosts.
K. Gulino +5 more
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HCIV-1 and other tailless icosahedral internal membrane-containing viruses of the family Sphaerolipoviridae [PDF]
Members of the virus family Sphaerolipoviridae include both archaeal viruses and bacteriophages that possess a tailless icosahedral capsid with an internal membrane.
Atanasova, Nina Sofia +6 more
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Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection. [PDF]
Phytoplankton and associated microbial communities provide organic carbon to oceanic food webs and drive ecosystem dynamics. However, capturing those dynamics is challenging. Here, an in situ, semi-Lagrangian, robotic sampler profiled pelagic microbes at
Allen, AE +12 more
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Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism [PDF]
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A Bodył +193 more
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Amoebae, Giant Viruses, and Virophages Make Up a Complex, Multilayered Threesome
Viral infection had not been observed for amoebae, until the Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) was discovered in 2003. APMV belongs to the nucleocytoplasmatic large DNA virus (NCLDV) family and infects not only A.
Jan Diesend +3 more
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Single-shot diffraction data from the Mimivirus particle using an X-ray free-electron laser [PDF]
Citation: Ekeberg, T., Svenda, M., Seibert, M. M., Abergel, C., Maia, F. R. N. C., Seltzer, V., . . . Hajdu, J. (2016). Single-shot diffraction data from the Mimivirus particle using an X-ray free-electron laser. Scientific Data, 3.
Abergel, C. +59 more
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The Common Ancestor of Archaea and Eukarya Was Not an Archaeon
It is often assumed that eukarya originated from archaea. This view has been recently supported by phylogenetic analyses in which eukarya are nested within archaea. Here, I argue that these analyses are not reliable, and I critically discuss archaeal ancestor scenarios, as well as fusion scenarios for the origin of eukaryotes.
Patrick Forterre +1 more
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Exposure to Mimivirus collagen promotes arthritis [PDF]
Collagens, the most abundant proteins in animals, also occur in some recently described nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses such as Mimiviridae, which replicate in amoebae.
Gay, Steffen +5 more
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Smaller Fleas: Viruses of Microorganisms
Life forms can be roughly differentiated into those that are microscopic versus those that are not as well as those that are multicellular and those that, instead, are unicellular. Cellular organisms seem generally able to host viruses, and this propensity carries over to those that are both microscopic and less than truly multicellular.
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