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 …

Trade-offs between competition and defense specialists among unicellular planktonic organisms: the “killing the winner” hypothesis revisited

C Winter, T Bouvier, MG Weinbauer… - … and molecular biology …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY A trade-off between strategies maximizing growth and minimizing losses
appears to be a fundamental property of evolving biological entities existing in environments …

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 …

Bacteria–phage interactions in natural environments

SL Díaz-Muñoz, B Koskella - Advances in applied microbiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Phages are considered the most abundant and diverse biological entities on Earth and are
notable not only for their sheer abundance, but also for their influence on bacterial hosts. In …

Food web structure and body size: trophic position and resource acquisition

M Arim, SR Abades, G Laufer, M Loureiro, PA Marquet - Oikos, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ulrich Brose Body size is recognized as an important determinant of trophic structure as it
affects individual energetic demands, population density, and the interaction between …

[BOOK][B] Quantitative viral ecology: dynamics of viruses and their microbial hosts

JS Weitz - 2016 - degruyter.com
When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans—such as those
that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes …

Interactions between the green and brown food web determine ecosystem functioning

K Zou, E Thébault, G Lacroix, S Barot - Functional Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The concepts of top‐down and bottom‐up controls are central to our understanding of
cascading trophic effects on ecosystem functioning. Classical food web theory has focused …

A systematic review from basics to omics on bacteriophage applications in poultry production and processing

MR Islam, CE Martinez-Soto, JT Lin… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The growing human population is currently facing an unprecedented challenge on global
food production and sustainability. Despite recognizing poultry as one of the most successful …

Bacteriophage predation regulates microbial abundance and diversity in a full-scale bioreactor treating industrial wastewater

OH Shapiro, A Kushmaro, A Brenner - The ISME journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Changes in the microbial community composition of a full-scale membrane
bioreactor treating industrial wastewater were studied over a period of 462 days using a …

Viruses in aquatic ecosystems: important advancements of the last 20 years and prospects for the future in the field of microbial oceanography and limnology

S Jacquet, T Miki, R Noble, P Peduzzi… - … in Oceanography and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last two decades, viruses in aquatic systems have been observed to modify,
influence and control aquatic systems. Since the determination decades ago that viruses …