A viral reckoning: Viruses emerge as essential manipulators of global ecosystems
Viruses are integral components and critical regulators of microbial ecosystems. In terms of numbers alone, virus-like particles seemingly outnumber microbial cells in every ecosystem (Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan, 2004), with a virus-to-microbe ratio typically ranging from 1 to 100 (Wigington et al...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1542326 2023-07-30T04:06:19+02:00 A viral reckoning: Viruses emerge as essential manipulators of global ecosystems Roux, Simon Brum, Jennifer R. 2022-03-31 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1542326 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1542326 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12700 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1542326 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1542326 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12700 doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12700 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES 2022 ftosti https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12700 2023-07-11T09:35:03Z Viruses are integral components and critical regulators of microbial ecosystems. In terms of numbers alone, virus-like particles seemingly outnumber microbial cells in every ecosystem (Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan, 2004), with a virus-to-microbe ratio typically ranging from 1 to 100 (Wigington et al., 2016). While challenging to assess, profound ecological and evolutionary impacts of virus-host interactions have nonetheless been uncovered across a broad range of ecosystems, from the bottom of the oceans to bubbling acidic hot springs, coral reefs and thawing permafrost (Suttle, 2007; Rohwer and Vega Thurber, 2009; Dell'Anno et al., 2015; Williamson et al., 2017; Emerson et al., 2018). Collectively, these studies highlighted multiple mechanisms by which viruses drive ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial ecosystems (Koskella and Brockhurst, 2014; Breitbart et al., 2018). While the ecological importance of viruses is now undeniable, a thorough assessment of their influence on any microbial system remains elusive. Two of the current challenges are (i) comprehensively exploring and classifying environmental viral diversity and (ii) establishing host linkages for uncultivated viruses. A number of recent methodological innovations suggest, however, that these hurdles may be overcome sooner rather than later (Mokili et al., 2012; Dang and Sullivan, 2014; Brum and Sullivan, 2015; Sepulveda et al., 2016; Sullivan et al., 2017). Here in this paper, based on these latest advances in the field of viral ecology and genomics, we try to imagine how a comprehensive host-resolved mapping of the viral sequence space will enable researchers to address long-standing viral ecology questions in an unprecedented way. We present these as three stories relating how we picture (and/or wish) viral ecology research could be conducted 10 years from now. Other/Unknown Material permafrost SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Sullivan ENVELOPE(-63.817,-63.817,-69.650,-69.650) Williamson ENVELOPE(-65.383,-65.383,-67.717,-67.717) Emerson ENVELOPE(168.733,168.733,-71.583,-71.583) Environmental Microbiology Reports 11 1 3 8 |
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Viruses are integral components and critical regulators of microbial ecosystems. In terms of numbers alone, virus-like particles seemingly outnumber microbial cells in every ecosystem (Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan, 2004), with a virus-to-microbe ratio typically ranging from 1 to 100 (Wigington et al., 2016). While challenging to assess, profound ecological and evolutionary impacts of virus-host interactions have nonetheless been uncovered across a broad range of ecosystems, from the bottom of the oceans to bubbling acidic hot springs, coral reefs and thawing permafrost (Suttle, 2007; Rohwer and Vega Thurber, 2009; Dell'Anno et al., 2015; Williamson et al., 2017; Emerson et al., 2018). Collectively, these studies highlighted multiple mechanisms by which viruses drive ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial ecosystems (Koskella and Brockhurst, 2014; Breitbart et al., 2018). While the ecological importance of viruses is now undeniable, a thorough assessment of their influence on any microbial system remains elusive. Two of the current challenges are (i) comprehensively exploring and classifying environmental viral diversity and (ii) establishing host linkages for uncultivated viruses. A number of recent methodological innovations suggest, however, that these hurdles may be overcome sooner rather than later (Mokili et al., 2012; Dang and Sullivan, 2014; Brum and Sullivan, 2015; Sepulveda et al., 2016; Sullivan et al., 2017). Here in this paper, based on these latest advances in the field of viral ecology and genomics, we try to imagine how a comprehensive host-resolved mapping of the viral sequence space will enable researchers to address long-standing viral ecology questions in an unprecedented way. We present these as three stories relating how we picture (and/or wish) viral ecology research could be conducted 10 years from now. |
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A viral reckoning: Viruses emerge as essential manipulators of global ecosystems |
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