Making sense of virus size and the tradeoffs shaping viral fitness

KF Edwards, GF Steward, CR Schvarcz - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Viruses span an impressive size range, with genome length varying a thousandfold and
virion volume nearly a millionfold. For cellular organisms the scaling of traits with size is a …

[图书][B] Marine microbiology: ecology & applications

CB Munn - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new
discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of …

Toward trait‐based food webs: Universal traits and trait matching in planktonic predator–prey and host–parasite relationships

E Litchman, KF Edwards… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is a growing consensus that traits offer a powerful way to examine the relationship
between the environment, organismal strategies, species interactions, and ecological …

A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances

N Mruwat, MCG Carlson, S Goldin, F Ribalet… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Long-term stability of picocyanobacteria in the open oceans is maintained by a balance
between synchronous division and death on daily timescales. Viruses are considered a …

Highly enriched N‐containing organic molecules of Synechococcus lysates and their rapid transformation by heterotrophic bacteria

Q Zheng, W Lin, Y Wang, Y Li, C He… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton are major contributors of labile dissolved organic matter to marine euphotic
zone ecosystems. Viral‐mediated phytoplankton lysis releases a considerable amount of …

Plasticity in the grazing ecophysiology of Florenciella (Dichtyochophyceae), a mixotrophic nanoflagellate that consumes Prochlorococcus and other bacteria

Q Li, KF Edwards, CR Schvarcz… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mixotrophic nanoflagellates can account for more than half of the bacterivory in the sunlit
ocean, yet very little is known about their ecophysiology. Here, we characterize the grazing …

Size-dependent and-independent prey selection of dinoflagellates

O García-Oliva, K Wirtz - Marine biology, 2022 - Springer
Mechanisticapproachestoplanktonfood-websoftenrelyonsize-basedmodels.
Thesemodelsdescribe predator–preyrelationshipsbasedonpredator body or cell size …

Metatranscriptomic response of deep ocean microbial populations to infusions of oil and/or synthetic chemical dispersant

TD Peña-Montenegro, S Kleindienst… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Oil spills are a frequent perturbation to the marine environment that has rapid and significant
impacts on the local microbiome. Previous studies have shown that exposure to synthetic …

Adaptation of human enterovirus to warm environments leads to resistance against chlorine disinfection

A Carratalà, V Bachmann, TR Julian… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sunlight, temperature, and microbial grazing are among the environmental factors
promoting the inactivation of viral pathogens in surface waters. Globally, these factors vary …

Altered growth and death in dilution-based viral predation assays

B Knowles, JA Bonachela, N Cieslik, A Della Penna… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Viral lysis of phytoplankton is one of the most common forms of death on Earth. Building on
an assay used extensively to assess rates of phytoplankton loss to predation by grazers …