Ecosystems are controlled by 'bottom-up'(resources) and 'top-down'(predation) forces. Viral
infection is now recognized as a ubiquitous top-down control of microbial growth across …

Production of phytoplankton (microalgae and cyanobacteria) in commercial raceway ponds
and other systems is adversely impacted by phytoplankton pathogens, including bacteria …

RNA viruses in aquatic environments remain poorly studied. Here, we analysed the RNA
virome from approximately 10 l water from Yangshan Deep-Water Harbour near the Yangtze …

A single-source reference on the biology of algae, the third edition of Algae: Anatomy,
Biochemistry, and Biotechnology examines the most important taxa and structures for …

Land plants host a vast and diverse virome that is dominated by RNA viruses, with major
additional contributions from reverse-transcribing and single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses …

Phytoplankton form the base of marine food webs and are a primary means for carbon
export in the Southern Ocean, a key area for global pCO2 drawdown. Viral lysis and grazing …

Commercial seaweed cultivation has undergone drastic changes to keep up with the
increasing demand in terms of the quantity and quality of the algal biomass needed to meet …

Chloroviruses are large dsDNA, plaque-forming viruses that infect certain chlorella-like
green algae; the algae are normally mutualistic endosymbionts of protists and metazoans …

Viruses, with an estimated abundance of 1031 on Earth, are an important component of soil
ecosystems. As obligate parasites that entirely depend on hosts for reproduction and …

Viruses have long been viewed as entities possessing extremely limited metabolic
capacities. Over the last decade, however, this view has been challenged, as metabolic …