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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2017

Novel Abundant Oceanic Viruses of Uncultured Marine Group II Euryarchaeota.

Alon Philosof, Natalya Yutin, José Flores-Uribe, Itai Sharon, Eugene V Koonin, Oded Béjà

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alon PhilosofFaculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. Electronic address: aphilosof@gmail.com.
Natalya YutinNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
José Flores-UribeFaculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Itai SharonMigal Galilee Research Institute, Kiryat Shmona 11016, Israel; Tel Hai College, Upper Galilee 12210, Israel.
Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Oded BéjàFaculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. Electronic address: beja@tx.technion.ac.il.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILNational Institutes of Health · USTel Hai Academic College · IL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marine group II Euryarchaeota (MG-II) are among the most abundant microbes in oceanic surface waters [1-4]. So far, however, representatives of MG-II have not been cultivated, and no viruses infecting these organisms have been described. Here, we present complete genomes for three distinct groups of viruses assembled from metagenomic sequence datasets highly enriched for MG-II. These novel viruses, which we denote magroviruses, possess double-stranded DNA genomes of 65 to 100 kilobases in size that encode a structural module characteristic of head-tailed viruses and, unusually for archaeal and bacterial viruses, a nearly complete replication apparatus of apparent archaeal origin. The newly identified magroviruses are widespread and abundant and therefore are likely to be major ecological agents.

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MetagenomicsArchaeal VirusesDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseEuryarchaeotaGenome, ViralOceans and SeasPhylogenyViral ProteinsVirus IntegrationVirus ReplicationDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseViral ProteinsarchaeaDNA polymerasemarinephagereplicationvirus

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PMID28457865
PMCPMC5434244
OpenAlexW2607699162

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