Viral community composition of hypersaline lakes

• Published in: Virus Evolution
• Main Authors: Le Lay, Callum, Hamm, Joshua N, Williams, Timothy J, Shi, Mang, Cavicchioli, Ricardo, Holmes, Edward C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Research Article; Tyrrell; Four Lakes; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10492444/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37692898; https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/vead057

Despite their widespread distribution and remarkable antiquity no RNA viruses definitively associated with the domain Archaea have been identified. In contrast, 17 families of DNA viruses are known to infect archaea. In an attempt to uncover more of the elusive archaeal virosphere, we investigated t...