Record-Breaking Rain Event Altered Estuarine Viral Assemblages.

ABSTRACT: Viruses are the dominant biological entity in the ocean, play a vital role in biogeochemical cycles, and provide their hosts with novel metabolic capabilities through auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs). Hurricane Harvey was a category 4 hurricane that made landfall on the Texas coast in 2017 and lashed the Houston area with 1.4-1.7 × 10¹⁰ m³ of rainfall. In this paper, we aim to characterize how the changes in abiotic conditions brought by Hurricane Harvey altered the viral assemblages of Galveston Bay at the taxonomic level and determine how viral ecosystem functions were altered. Metagenomes of the viruses and their hosts were sequenced from a transect in Galveston Bay over the five weeks following the storm. Our results show that the viral assemblages of Galveston Ba

SUBMITTER: Woods AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9025952 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature