ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2022
Host-Associated Phages Disperse across the Extraterrestrial Analogue Antarctica.
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- Atmospheric Microbial Transport to Antarctica and Its Ecological Implications: A Systematic Review.Environmental microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- 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
- Global dominance of Haloquadratum walsbyi by a single genomovar with distinct gene content and viral cohorts from close relatives.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Diversity of DNA viruses in the atmosphere of sub-Antarctic South Georgia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Breaking the Ice: A Review of Phages in Polar Ecosystems.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Review
- Marine viruses disperse bidirectionally along the natural water cycle.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Ecogenomics and cultivation reveal distinctive viral-bacterial communities in the surface microlayer of a Baltic Sea slick.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Women in the European Virus Bioinformatics Center.Viruses · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Extreme Antarctic conditions provide one of the closest analogues of extraterrestrial environments. Since air and snow samples, especially from polar regions, yield DNA amounts in the lower picogram range, binning of prokaryotic genomes is challenging and renders studying the dispersal of biological entities across these environments difficult. Here, we hypothesized that dispersal of host-associated bacteriophages (adsorbed, replicating, or prophages) across the Antarctic continent can be tracked via their genetic signatures, aiding our understanding of virus and host dispersal across long distances. Phage genome fragments (PGFs) reconstructed from surface snow metagenomes of three Antarctic stations were assigned to four host genomes, mainly
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