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ReviewViruses2019

The Virioneuston: A Review on Viral⁻Bacterial Associations at Air⁻Water Interfaces.

Janina Rahlff

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Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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  10. Ocean Aerobiology.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Janina RahlffUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Biofilm Centre, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany. Janina.rahlff@uol.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2132-2709

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vast biofilm-like habitats at air⁻water interfaces of marine and freshwater ecosystems harbor surface-dwelling microorganisms, which are commonly referred to as neuston. Viruses in the microlayer, i.e., the virioneuston, remain the most enigmatic biological entities in boundary surface layers due to their potential ecological impact on the microbial loop and major air⁻water exchange processes. To provide a broad picture of the viral⁻bacterial dynamics in surface microlayers, this review compiles insights on the challenges that viruses likely encounter at air⁻water interfaces. By considering viral abundance and morphology in surface microlayers, as well as dispersal and infection mechanisms as inferred from the relevant literature, this work highlights why studying the virioneuston in addition to the bacterioneuston is a worthwhile task. In this regard, major knowledge gaps and possible future research directions are discussed.

Indexed as

AirVirusesVirus Physiological PhenomenaWater MicrobiologyBacteriaBiofilmsEcosystemSeawaterSurface-Active AgentsSurface-Active Agentsaerosolsair–sea interactionbacterioneustonbubblesparticlesphagessurface microlayersurfactantstransparent exopolymer particles (TEP)

Identifiers

PMID30813345
PMCPMC6410083

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