ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology1999
Hybridization analysis of chesapeake bay virioplankton
Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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Abstract
It has been hypothesized that, by specifically lysing numerically dominant host strains, the virioplankton may play a role in maintaining clonal diversity of heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton populations. If viruses selectively lyse only those host species that are numerically dominant, then the number of a specific virus within the virioplankton would be expected to change dramatically over time and space, in coordination with changes in abundance of the host. In this study, the abundances of specific viruses in Chesapeake Bay water samples were monitored, using nucleic acid probes and hybridization analysis. Total virioplankton in a water sample was separated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and hybridized with nucleic acid probes specific to either single viral strains or a group of viruses with similar genome sizes. The abundances of specific viruses were inferred from the intensity of the hybridization signal. By using this technique, a virus comprising 1/1,000 of the total virioplankton abundance (ca. 10(4) PFU/ml) could be detected. Titers of either a single virus species or a group of viruses changed over time, increasing to peak abundance and then declining to low or undetectable levels, and were geographically localized in the bay. Peak signal intensities, i.e., peak abundances of virus strains, were 10-fold greater than the low background level. Furthermore, virus species were found to be restricted to a particular depth, since probes specific to viruses from bottom water did not hybridize with virus genomes from surface water at the same geographical location. Overall, changes in abundances of specific viruses within the virioplankton were episodic, supporting the hypothesis that viral infection influences, if not controls, clonal diversity within heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton communities.
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