Soil microorganisms, by actively participating in the decomposition and transformation of
organic matter through diverse metabolic pathways, play a pivotal role in carbon cycling …

Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Environmental RNA viruses are ubiquitous and diverse, and probably have important
ecological and biogeochemical impacts. Understanding the global diversity of RNA viruses …

Soil viruses are highly abundant and have important roles in the regulation of host dynamics
and soil ecology. Climate change is resulting in unprecedented changes to soil ecosystems …

High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

The diverse rumen virome can modulate the rumen microbiome, but it remains largely
unexplored. Here, we mine 975 published rumen metagenomes for viral sequences, create …

The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …

SUMMARY Fifty years ago, David Baltimore published a brief conceptual paper delineating
the classification of viruses by the routes of genome expression. The six “Baltimore classes” …

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events highlights the need to understand how
soil microbiomes respond to such disturbances. Here, metagenomics was used to …