ArticleMicrobes and environments2019
The Earth Is Small for "Leviathans": Long Distance Dispersal of Giant Viruses across Aquatic Environments.
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- Uncovering novel virophages and giant viruses in high-altitude Lake Namtso: diversity and evolution of host-virus-virophage tripartite interaction systems.Archives of microbiology · 2026Article
- Haptophyte-infecting viruses change the genome condensing proteins of dinoflagellates.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic proximity is a key driver of temporal succession of marine giant viruses in a five-year metagenomic time-series.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of giant viruses within a deep freshwater lake reveal a distinct dark-water community.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Continuous year-round isolation of giant viruses from brackish shoreline soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Host-Associated Phages Disperse across the Extraterrestrial Analogue Antarctica.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Scaling relation between genome length and particle size of viruses provides insights into viral life history.iScience · 2021Article
- Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020Review
- An Optimized Metabarcoding Method forMicroorganisms · 2020Article
- Giant virus vs amoeba: fight for supremacy.Virology journal · 2019Review
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Abstract
Giant viruses of 'Megaviridae' have the ability to widely disperse around the globe. We herein examined 'Megaviridae' communities in four distinct aquatic environments (coastal and offshore seawater, brackish water, and hot spring freshwater), which are distantly located from each other (between 74 and 1,765 km), using a meta-barcoding method. We identified between 593 and 3,627 OTUs in each sample. Some OTUs were detected in all five samples tested as well as in many of the Tara Oceans metagenomes, suggesting the existence of viruses of this family in a wide range of habitats and the ability to circulate on the planet.
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