Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake

Virophages are parasites of giant viruses that infect eukaryotic organisms and may affect the ecology of inland water ecosystems. Despite the potential ecological impact, limited information is available on the distribution, diversity, and hosts of virophages in ecosystems. Metagenomics revealed tha...

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Autores principales: Oh, Seungdae, Yoo, Dongwan, Liu, Wen-Tso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: the Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME)/the Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology (JSSM)/the Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology (TSME)/the Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions (JSPMI) 2016
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27151658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME16003
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description Virophages are parasites of giant viruses that infect eukaryotic organisms and may affect the ecology of inland water ecosystems. Despite the potential ecological impact, limited information is available on the distribution, diversity, and hosts of virophages in ecosystems. Metagenomics revealed that virophages were widely distributed in inland waters with various environmental characteristics including salinity and nutrient availability. A novel virophage population was overrepresented in a planktonic microbial community of the Tibetan mountain lake, Lake Qinghai. Our study identified coccolithophores and coccolithovirus-like phycodnaviruses in the same community, which may serve as eukaryotic and viral hosts of the virophage population, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-49121542016-06-29 Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake Oh, Seungdae Yoo, Dongwan Liu, Wen-Tso Microbes Environ Short Communication Virophages are parasites of giant viruses that infect eukaryotic organisms and may affect the ecology of inland water ecosystems. Despite the potential ecological impact, limited information is available on the distribution, diversity, and hosts of virophages in ecosystems. Metagenomics revealed that virophages were widely distributed in inland waters with various environmental characteristics including salinity and nutrient availability. A novel virophage population was overrepresented in a planktonic microbial community of the Tibetan mountain lake, Lake Qinghai. Our study identified coccolithophores and coccolithovirus-like phycodnaviruses in the same community, which may serve as eukaryotic and viral hosts of the virophage population, respectively. the Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME)/the Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology (JSSM)/the Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology (TSME)/the Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions (JSPMI) 2016-06 2016-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4912154/ /pubmed/27151658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME16003 Text en Copyright © 2016 by Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title_full Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title_fullStr Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title_full_unstemmed Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title_short Metagenomics Reveals a Novel Virophage Population in a Tibetan Mountain Lake
title_sort metagenomics reveals a novel virophage population in a tibetan mountain lake
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27151658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME16003
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