Marine viruses discovered via metagenomics shed light on viral strategies throughout the oceans

oleh: Felipe H. Coutinho, Cynthia B. Silveira, Gustavo B. Gregoracci, Cristiane C. Thompson, Robert A. Edwards, Corina P. D. Brussaard, Bas E. Dutilh, Fabiano L. Thompson

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01

Deskripsi

The understanding of marine virus diversity and function is in its infancy. Here, Coutinhoet al. assemble a data set of new viral contigs and use co-occurrence analyses to identify the putative hosts, elucidate infection strategies and viral strategies for exploiting their hosts.