Viral abundance in soils can range from below detection limits in hot deserts to over 1 billion
per gram in wetlands. Abundance appears to be strongly influenced by water availability …

Viruses are ubiquitous in nature and have various ecological functions. Despite their very
high abundance (up to 10 10 g− 1), viruses in soil remain disregarded with just a few, mostly …

Crassvirales (crAss-like phages) are an abundant group of human gut-specific
bacteriophages discovered in silico. The use of crAss-like phages as human fecal indicators …

Bacteriophages are among the most abundant and diverse biological units in the biosphere.
They have contributed to our understanding of the central dogma of biology and have been …

Background Viruses influence global patterns of microbial diversity and nutrient cycles.
Though viral metagenomics (viromics), specifically targeting dsDNA viruses, has been …

Coral reefs occur in nutrient-poor shallow waters, constitute biodiversity and productivity
hotspots, and are threatened by anthropogenic disturbance. This Review provides an …

Background Viruses are key players regulating microbial ecosystems. Exploration of viral
assemblages is now possible thanks to the development of metagenomics, the most …

Bacteriophages are ubiquitous and numerous parasites of bacteria and play a critical
evolutionary role in virtually every ecosystem, yet our understanding of the extent of the …

Phylogenetic trees are an important analytical tool for evaluating community diversity and
evolutionary history. In the case of microorganisms, the decreasing cost of sequencing has …

Viruses must establish an intimate relationship with their hosts and vectors in order to infect,
replicate, and disseminate; hence, viruses can be considered as symbionts with their hosts …