High-level diversity of tailed phages, eukaryote-associated viruses, and virophage-like elements in the metaviromes of Antarctic soils

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Zablocki, Oliver, van Zyl, Lonnie, Adriaenssens, Evelien M., Rubagotti, Enrico, Tuffin, Marla I., Cary, S. Craig, Cowan, Don A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society Microbiology 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Sputnik; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9592; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01525-14

The metaviromes of two distinct Antarctic hyperarid desert soil communities have been characterized. Hypolithic communities, cyanobacterium-dominated assemblages situated on the ventral surfaces of quartz pebbles embedded in the desert pavement, showed higher virus diversity than surface soils, whic...