Happy to share a collaborative preprint with Assaf Vardi's group in which we use single cell transcriptomics to link giant viruses with their native hosts during a marine algal bloom!

This approach is quite sensitive - we were able to identify viruses infecting one protist group that made up <0.5% of the community.

Homing in on the rare virosphere reveals the native host of giant viruses

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

#viruses #giantViruses #ocean #marine

Homing in on the rare virosphere reveals the native host of giant viruses

Giant viruses (phylum Nucleocytoviricota) are globally distributed in aquatic ecosystems They play major roles as evolutionary drivers of eukaryotic plankton and regulators of global biogeochemical cycles.

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My first "reviewed preprint" on @eLife !

A Timeline of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversification in the Ocean

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre…

Lots of hard work from former PhD student in my lab Carolina Martinez. Part of a collaboration with @pseudacris

We are enjoying the new process so far and working on revisions to address some of the concerns raised by reviewers.

#ocean #marine #microbiology #evolution #ecology

Our latest work on marine giant virus diversity -

Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects

nature.com/articles/s43705-023…

#viruses #marine #ocean #giantviruses

Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects - ISME Communications

ISME Communications - Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects

^Nature

Wonderful essay by @vincentflora and Assaf Vardi on viruses in the ocean

Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales

"Aquatic virology tackles some of the most challenging questions in microbial ecology and oceanography, trying to understand how microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye can influence large-scale processes, such as biogeochemical cycles, or affect entire marine food webs."

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/…

#viruses #virology #ocean #marine

Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales

Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the ocean. This Essay journeys across several orders of magnitude of biological organization, time, and space, to investigate interactions between hosts and viruses in the ocean and their relevance f…

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New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:

Part 3: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…

Part 4: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…

#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean

The Nummulosphere Part 3: The Ocean Floor or Benthoplankton : Randolph Kirkpatrick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[pt. 1] An account of the organic origin of so-called igneous rocks and of abyssal red clays.--pt. 2. The genesis of the igneous rocks and of meteorites...

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