Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Viruses impact nearly all organisms on Earth, including microbial communities and their associated biogeochemical processes. In soils, highly diverse viral communities have been identified, with a global distribution seemingly driven by multiple biotic and abiotic factors, especially soil temperature and moisture. However, our current understanding of the stability of soil viral communities across time and their response to strong seasonal changes in environmental parameters remains limited. Here, we investigated the diversity and activity of environmental soil DNA and RNA viruses, focusing especially on bacteriophages, across dynamics' seasonal changes in a snow-dominated mountainous watershed by examining paired metagenomes and metatranscriptomes.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Coclet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10604447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature