Marine viral concentrates (VCs) contains a substantial amount of non-cellular biological particles, e.g. viruses, gene transfer agents (GTAs) and membrane vesicles that are ecological significant. Metagenomic sequencing of VCs has been extensively applied to study the diversity and function potentia...
Viral concentrates (VCs) contained both viral particles and cell-affiliated components. In this study, a shotgun metaproteomic approach was applied to characterize proteins in the VCs collected from chlorophyll maximum, mesopelagic (200 m) and bathypelagic (3000 m) waters in the South China Sea. Abu...
A grand challenge in biology is the lack of annotation for much of global sequence space. In particular, while microbes and their viruses are critical to Earth System functioning, surveys of their communities in nature routinely return genes of unknown function, particularly for viruses. This hamper...
Wildebeests carry asymptomatically Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1), a M-NM-3-herpesvirus inducing a lethal lymphoproliferative disease named malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in a number of susceptible species of the Artiodactyla order, including cattle. The local population welfare in eastern Afri...
