Metagenomics reveals the structure of Mastrevirus-host interaction network within an agro-ecosystem.

ABSTRACT: As highly pervasive parasites that sometimes cause disease, viruses are likely major components of all natural ecosystems. An important step towards both understanding the precise ecological roles of viruses and determining how natural communities of viral species are assembled and evolve is obtaining full descriptions of viral diversity and distributions at ecosystem scales. Here, we focused on obtaining such 'community-scale' data for viruses in a single genus. We chose the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae), members of which have predominantly been found infecting uncultivated grasses (family Poaceae) throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. We sampled over 3 years, 2,884 individual Poaceae plants belonging to thirty different species within a 2-ha plo

SUBMITTER: Claverie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354507 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature