Role of Phylogenetic Structure in the Dynamics of Coastal Viral Assemblages.

ABSTRACT: Marine microbes, including viruses, are an essential part of the marine ecosystem, forming the base of the food web and driving biogeochemical cycles. Within this system, the composition of viral assemblages changes markedly with time, and some of these changes are repeatable through time; however, the extent to which these dynamics are reflected within versus among evolutionarily related groups of viruses is largely unexplored. To examine these dynamics, changes in the composition of two groups of ecologically important viruses and communities of their potential hosts were sampled every 2 weeks for 13 months at a coastal site in British Columbia, Canada. We sequenced two marker genes for viruses-the gene encoding the major capsid protein of T4-like phages and their relatives (gp23)

SUBMITTER: Gustavsen JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8208158 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature