Deciphering the virus‐to‐prokaryote ratio (VPR): insights into virus–host relationships in a variety of ecosystems

KJ Parikka, M Le Romancer, N Wauters… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the numerical importance of viruses in a variety of (aquatic) ecosystems
has changed our perception of their importance in microbial processes. Bacteria and A …

Investigating the effects of anthropogenic stressors on lake biota using sedimentary DNA

C Barouillet, ME Monchamp, S Bertilsson… - Freshwater …, 2023‏ - pub.epsilon.slu.se
Analyses of sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) have increased exponentially over the last decade
and hold great potential to study the effects of anthropogenic stressors on lake biota over …

Monitoring human enteric viruses in wastewater and relevance to infections encountered in the clinical setting: a one-year experiment in central France, 2014 to 2015

M Bisseux, J Colombet, A Mirand… - …, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Human enteric viruses are resistant in the environment and transmitted via the
faecal-oral route. Viral shedding in wastewater gives the opportunity to track emerging …

Environmental bacteriophages: viruses of microbes in aquatic ecosystems

T Sime-Ngando - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
Since the discovery 2–3 decades ago that viruses of microbes are abundant in marine
ecosystems, viral ecology has grown increasingly to reach the status of a full scientific …

The wonderful world of archaeal viruses

D Prangishvili - Annual review of microbiology, 2013‏ - annualreviews.org
This review presents a personal account of research on archaeal viruses and describes
many new viral species and families, demonstrating that viruses of Archaea constitute a …

Slow microbial life in the seabed

BB Jørgensen, IPG Marshall - Annual review of marine science, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Global microbial cell numbers in the seabed exceed those in the overlying water column, yet
these organisms receive less than 1% of the energy fixed as organic matter in the ocean …

Archaeal viruses and bacteriophages: comparisons and contrasts

MK Pietilä, TA Demina, NS Atanasova… - Trends in …, 2014‏ - cell.com
Isolated archaeal viruses comprise only a few percent of all known prokaryotic viruses. Thus,
the study of viruses infecting archaea is still in its early stages. Here we summarize the most …

Effects of sulfonamide antibiotics on aquatic microbial community composition and functions

M Paumelle, F Donnadieu, M Joly… - Environment …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge on interactions among microbial communities colonizing various
streambed substrata (eg cobbles, sediment, leaf-litter etc.) is essential when investigating …

Active and diverse viruses persist in the deep sub-seafloor sediments over thousands of years

L Cai, BB Jørgensen, CA Suttle, M He… - The ISME …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Viruses are ubiquitous and cause significant mortality in marine bacterial and archaeal
communities. Little is known about the role of viruses in the sub-seafloor biosphere, which …

Unification of the globally distributed spindle-shaped viruses of the Archaea

M Krupovic, ERJ Quemin, DH Bamford… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - journals.asm.org
Viruses with spindle-shaped virions are abundant in diverse environments. Over the years,
such viruses have been isolated from a wide range of archaeal hosts. Evolutionary …