Exploring virus-host-environment interactions in a chemotrophic-based underground estuary.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Viruses play important roles in modulating microbial communities and influencing global biogeochemistry. There is now growing interest in characterising their ecological roles across diverse biomes. However, little is known about viral ecology in low-nutrient, chemotrophic-based environments. In such ecosystems, virus-driven manipulation of nutrient cycles might have profound impacts across trophic levels. In particular, anchialine environments, which are low-energy underground estuaries sustained by chemotrophic processes, represent ideal model systems to study novel virus-host-environment interactions.

Results

Here, we employ metagenomic sequencing to investigate the viral community in Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine ecosystem rich in endemic species supported b

SUBMITTER: Ghaly TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10829341 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature