Viruses of Polar Aquatic Environments

The poles constitute 14% of the Earth’s biosphere: The aquatic Arctic surrounded by land in the north, and the frozen Antarctic continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean. In spite of an extremely cold climate in addition to varied topographies, the polar aquatic regions are teeming with microbial l...

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Published in:Viruses
Main Authors: Yau, Sheree, Seth-Pasricha, Mansha
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2019
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6410135/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30813316
https://doi.org/10.3390/v11020189
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6410135 2023-05-15T13:39:26+02:00 Viruses of Polar Aquatic Environments Yau, Sheree Seth-Pasricha, Mansha 2019-02-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6410135/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30813316 https://doi.org/10.3390/v11020189 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6410135/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30813316 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v11020189 © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Review Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/v11020189 2019-04-07T00:26:29Z The poles constitute 14% of the Earth’s biosphere: The aquatic Arctic surrounded by land in the north, and the frozen Antarctic continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean. In spite of an extremely cold climate in addition to varied topographies, the polar aquatic regions are teeming with microbial life. Even in sub-glacial regions, cellular life has adapted to these extreme environments where perhaps there are traces of early microbes on Earth. As grazing by macrofauna is limited in most of these polar regions, viruses are being recognized for their role as important agents of mortality, thereby influencing the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients that, in turn, impact community dynamics at seasonal and spatial scales. Here, we review the viral diversity in aquatic polar regions that has been discovered in the last decade, most of which has been revealed by advances in genomics-enabled technologies, and we reflect on the vast extent of the still-to-be explored polar microbial diversity and its “enigmatic virosphere”. Text Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Southern Ocean PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic Arctic Southern Ocean Viruses 11 2 189
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