The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys

The first giant virus was identified in 2003 from a biofilm of an industrial water-cooling tower in England. Later, numerous new giant viruses were found in oceans and freshwater habitats, some of them having even 2,500 genes. We have demonstrated their very likely presence in four soil samples take...

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Main Authors: Kerepesi, Csaba, Grolmusz, Vince
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2015
Subjects:
Genomics q-bio.GN
FOS Biological sciences
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Tundra
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.05575
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05575
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1503.05575 2023-05-15T14:02:01+02:00 The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys Kerepesi, Csaba Grolmusz, Vince 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.05575 https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05575 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Genomics q-bio.GN FOS Biological sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.05575 2022-04-01T12:24:58Z The first giant virus was identified in 2003 from a biofilm of an industrial water-cooling tower in England. Later, numerous new giant viruses were found in oceans and freshwater habitats, some of them having even 2,500 genes. We have demonstrated their very likely presence in four soil samples taken from the Kutch Desert (Gujarat, India). Here we describe a bioinformatics work-flow, called the "Giant Virus Finder" that is capable to discover the very likely presence of the genomes of giant viruses in metagenomic shotgun-sequenced datasets. The new tool is applied to numerous hot and cold desert soil samples as well as some tundra- and forest soils. We show that most of these samples contain giant viruses, and especially many were found in the Antarctic dry valleys. The results imply that giant viruses could be frequent not only in aqueous habitats, but in a wide spectrum of soils on our planet. Report Antarc* Antarctic Tundra DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic
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FOS Biological sciences
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FOS Biological sciences
Kerepesi, Csaba
Grolmusz, Vince
The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
topic_facet Genomics q-bio.GN
FOS Biological sciences
description The first giant virus was identified in 2003 from a biofilm of an industrial water-cooling tower in England. Later, numerous new giant viruses were found in oceans and freshwater habitats, some of them having even 2,500 genes. We have demonstrated their very likely presence in four soil samples taken from the Kutch Desert (Gujarat, India). Here we describe a bioinformatics work-flow, called the "Giant Virus Finder" that is capable to discover the very likely presence of the genomes of giant viruses in metagenomic shotgun-sequenced datasets. The new tool is applied to numerous hot and cold desert soil samples as well as some tundra- and forest soils. We show that most of these samples contain giant viruses, and especially many were found in the Antarctic dry valleys. The results imply that giant viruses could be frequent not only in aqueous habitats, but in a wide spectrum of soils on our planet.
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title The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
title_short The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
title_full The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
title_fullStr The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
title_full_unstemmed The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
title_sort "giant virus finder" discovers an abundance of giant viruses in the antarctic dry valleys
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05575
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