Counts and sequences, observations that continue to change our understanding of viruses in nature

To kill or not to kill: The balance between lytic and lysogenic viral infection is driven by trophic status

(2016) Jérôme P. Payet et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Using Signature Genes as Tools To Assess Environmental Viral Ecology and Diversity

(2014) Evelien M. Adriaenssens et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of viral genome assembly and diversity estimation in deep metagenomes

(2014) Daniel Aguirre de Cárcer et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space

(2014) Li Deng et al.   NATURE

The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles

(2014) Luis F. Jover et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ribonucleotide reductases reveal novel viral diversity and predict biological and ecological features of unknown marine viruses

(2014) E. G. Sakowski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sulfur Oxidation Genes in Diverse Deep-Sea Viruses

(2014) K. Anantharaman et al.   SCIENCE

Caught in the middle with multiple displacement amplification: the myth of pooling for avoiding multiple displacement amplification bias in a metagenome

(2014) Rachel Marine et al.   Microbiome

Direct Assessment of Viral Diversity in Soils by Random PCR Amplification of Polymorphic DNA

(2013) Sharath Srinivasiah et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shotgun metagenomics indicates novel family A DNA polymerases predominate within marine virioplankton

(2013) Helen F Schmidt et al.   ISME Journal

Marine viruses, a genetic reservoir revealed by targeted viromics

(2013) Joaquín Martínez Martínez et al.   ISME Journal

Previously unknown and highly divergent ssDNA viruses populate the oceans

(2013) Jessica M Labonté et al.   ISME Journal

Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean

(2013) Yanlin Zhao et al.   NATURE

The Pacific Ocean Virome (POV): A Marine Viral Metagenomic Dataset and Associated Protein Clusters for Quantitative Viral Ecology

(2013) Bonnie L. Hurwitz et al.   PLoS One

Assembly of a Marine Viral Metagenome after Physical Fractionation

(2013) Jennifer R. Brum et al.   PLoS One

Genome of a SAR116 bacteriophage shows the prevalence of this phage type in the oceans

(2013) I. Kang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Twelve previously unknown phage genera are ubiquitous in global oceans

(2013) K. Holmfeldt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A novel virus genome discovered in an extreme environment suggests recombination between unrelated groups of RNA and DNA viruses

(2012) Geoffrey S Diemer et al.   Biology Direct

Ocean viruses: Rigorously evaluating the metagenomic sample-to-sequence pipeline

(2012) Melissa B. Duhaime et al.   VIROLOGY

VIROME: a standard operating procedure for analysis of viral metagenome sequences

(2012) K. Eric Wommack et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

The Rare Bacterial Biosphere

(2011) Carlos Pedrós-Alió   Annual Review of Marine Science

Isolation and Characterization of a Single-Stranded DNA Virus Infecting Chaetoceros lorenzianus Grunow

(2011) Yuji Tomaru et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylodynamics and movement of Phycodnaviruses among aquatic environments

(2011) Manuela V Gimenes et al.   ISME Journal

Repeating patterns of virioplankton production within an estuarine ecosystem

(2011) D. M. Winget et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disentangling the relative influence of bacterioplankton phylogeny and metabolism on lysogeny in reservoirs and lagoons

(2010) Corinne F Maurice et al.   ISME Journal

Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments

(2010) Beltran Rodriguez-Brito et al.   ISME Journal

Multiple displacement amplification compromises quantitative analysis of metagenomes

(2010) Suzan Yilmaz et al.   NATURE METHODS

A simple and efficient method for concentration of ocean viruses by chemical flocculation

(2010) Seth G. John et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Phylogenetic Analysis Indicates Evolutionary Diversity and Environmental Segregation of Marine Podovirus DNA Polymerase Gene Sequences

(2009) J. M. Labonte et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic signatures of 86 microbial and viral metagenomes

(2009) Dana Willner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diel and daily fluctuations in virioplankton production in coastal ecosystems

(2009) Danielle M. Winget et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Viral lysis of Phaeocystis pouchetii: Implications for algal population dynamics and heterotrophic C, N and P cycling

(2009) Jakob Haaber et al.   ISME Journal

Determination of viral production in aquatic sediments using the dilution-based approach

(2009) Antonio Dell'Anno et al.   Nature Protocols

The GAAS Metagenomic Tool and Its Estimations of Viral and Microbial Average Genome Size in Four Major Biomes

(2009) Florent E. Angly et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Community-wide analysis of microbial genome sequence signatures

(2009) Gregory J Dick et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Metagenomics: Read Length Matters

(2008) K. E. Wommack et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative study of picoplankton biomass and community structure in different provinces from subarctic to subtropical oceans

(2008) Yao Zhang et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

MetaGeneAnnotator: Detecting Species-Specific Patterns of Ribosomal Binding Site for Precise Gene Prediction in Anonymous Prokaryotic and Phage Genomes

(2008) H. Noguchi et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Evidence that viral abundance across oceans and lakes is driven by different biological factors

(2008) JESSICA L. CLASEN et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Cultivation-Based Assessment of Lysogeny Among Soil Bacteria

(2008) Kurt E. Williamson et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   NATURE

Phages across the biosphere: contrasts of viruses in soil and aquatic environments

(2008) Sharath Srinivasiah et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY