Viral metagenomics reveals diverse virus-host interactions throughout the soil depth profile

G Muscatt, R Cook, A Millard, GD Bending, E Jameson - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soil microbes play pivotal roles in global carbon cycling; however, the fundamental
interactions between microbes and their infecting viruses remain unclear. This is …

Ecological and evolutionary patterns of virus-host interactions throughout a grassland soil depth profile

G Muscatt, R Cook, A Millard, GD Bending, E Jameson - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Background Soil microbes play pivotal roles in global carbon cycling, however the
fundamental interactions between microbes and their infecting viruses remain unclear. This …

Soil viruses are underexplored players in ecosystem carbon processing

G Trubl, HB Jang, S Roux, JB Emerson, N Solonenko… - …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rapidly thawing permafrost harbors∼ 30 to 50% of global soil carbon, and the fate of this
carbon remains unknown. Microorganisms will play a central role in its fate, and their viruses …

A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts

EB Graham, AP Camargo, R Wu, RY Neches… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Historically neglected by microbial ecologists, soil viruses are now thought to be critical to
global biogeochemical cycles. However, our understanding of their global distribution …

Soil viruses: a new hope

JB Emerson - Msystems, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
As abundant members of microbial communities, viruses impact microbial mortality, carbon
and nutrient cycling, and food web dynamics. Although most of our information about viral …

Diversity in the soil virosphere: to infinity and beyond?

S Roux, JB Emerson - Trends in Microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Viruses are key members of Earth's microbiomes, shaping microbial community composition
and metabolism. Here, we describe recent advances in'soil viromics', that is, virus-focused …

[PDF][PDF] Soil viruses are underexplored players in ecosystem carbon processing. mSystems 3: e00076-18

G Trubl, HB Jang, S Roux, JB Emerson, N Solonenko… - 2018 - researchgate.net
Rapidly thawing permafrost harbors 30 to 50% of global soil carbon, and the fate of this
carbon remains unknown. Microorganisms will play a central role in its fate, and their viruses …

Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry

C Carreira, C Lønborg, B Acharya, L Aryal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The soil microbiome is recognized as an essential component of healthy soils. Viruses are
also diverse and abundant in soils, but their roles in soil systems remain unclear. Here we …

Untapped viral diversity in global soil metagenomes

EB Graham, D Paez-Espino, C Brislawn, RY Neches… - Biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Viruses outnumber every other biological entity on Earth, and soil viruses are particularly
diverse compared to other habitats. However, we have limited understanding of soil viruses …

Coming-of-age characterization of soil viruses: a user's guide to virus isolation, detection within metagenomes, and viromics

G Trubl, P Hyman, S Roux, ST Abedon - Soil Systems, 2020 - mdpi.com
The study of soil viruses, though not new, has languished relative to the study of marine
viruses. This is particularly due to challenges associated with separating virions from …