Highlights•Phages are abundant within ecosystems, but their role is often understated.•
Ecological success models can help explain observed phage–bacteria …

Sulfur plays a pivotal role in interactions within the atmosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere,
hydrosphere and biosphere, and the functioning of living organisms. In the Earth's crust …

Background Viral-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) are important toolkits for
modulating their hosts' metabolisms and the microbial-driven biogeochemical cycles …

While decomposition of organic matter by bacteria plays a major role in nutrient cycling in
terrestrial ecosystems, the significance of viruses remains poorly understood. Here we …

In marine ecosystems, viruses exert control on the composition and metabolism of microbial
communities, influencing overall biogeochemical cycling. Deep sea sediments associated …

Anaerobic methane oxidation exerts a key control on greenhouse gas emissions, yet factors
that modulate the activity of microorganisms performing this function remain poorly …

Viruses are often studied using metagenome-assembled sequences, but genome
incompleteness hampers comprehensive and accurate analyses. Contig Overlap Based Re …

Microbial sulfur metabolism contributes to biogeochemical cycling on global scales. Sulfur
metabolizing microbes are infected by phages that can encode auxiliary metabolic genes …

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Microorganisms largely
drive the biogeochemical cycling of methane, yet little is known about viral contributions to …

The concentration of atmospheric methane (CH4) continues to increase with microbial
communities controlling soil–atmosphere fluxes. While there is substantial knowledge of the …