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ArticleNature communications2025

Metagenomic analysis reveals how multiple stressors disrupt virus-host interactions in multi-trophic freshwater mesocosms.

Tao Wang, Peiyu Zhang, Karthik Anantharaman, Huan Wang, Huan Zhang, Min Zhang, Jun Xu

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tao WangKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0911-0217
Peiyu ZhangKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-3882
Karthik AnantharamanDepartment of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9584-2491
Huan WangKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.
Huan ZhangKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.
Min ZhangHubei Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Pond Aquaculture, Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China. zhm7875@mail.hzau.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8776-8562
Jun XuKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China. xujun@ihb.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8065-296X

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32001151National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42377469
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus-host interactions are vital to microbiome ecology and evolution, yet their responses to environmental stressors under global change remain poorly understood. We perform a 10-month outdoor mesocosm experiment simulating multi-trophic freshwater shallow lake ecosystems. Using a fully factorial design comprising eight treatments with six replicates each, we assess the individual and combined effects of climate warming, nutrient loading, and pesticide loading on DNA viral communities and their interactions with microbial hosts. Metagenomic sequencing recovers 12,359 viral OTUs and 1628 unique prokaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes. Our analysis shows that combined nutrient and pesticide loading causes significant disruption by synergistically reducing viral alpha diversity while altering beta diversity and predator-prey linkages. Stressors lead to the simplification of virus-bacteria cross-kingdom networks, with nutrient-pesticide combinations exerting the strongest influence, although warming impacts diminish in the presence of pesticides. Stressor-driven changes also affect the abundance and composition of viral auxiliary metabolic genes, leading to complex shifts in virus-mediated metabolic pathways under multiple stress conditions. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the regulatory role of viruses on microbial communities to effectively address the challenges posed by global change.

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BacteriaFresh WaterHost Microbial InteractionsMetagenomicsVirusesClimate ChangeEcosystemLakesMetagenomeMicrobiotaPesticidesStress, PhysiologicalPesticides

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PMCPMC12370912

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