Lingjie Meng, Tom O Delmont, Morgan Gaïa, Eric Pelletier, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Samuel Chaffron, Russell Y Neches, Junyi Wu, Hiroto Kaneko, Hisashi Endo, Hiroyuki Ogata
Despite being perennially frigid, polar oceans form an ecosystem hosting high and unique biodiversity. Various organisms show different adaptive strategies in this habitat, but how viruses adapt to this environment is largely unknown. Viruses of phyla Nucleocytoviricota and Mirusviricota are groups of eukaryote-infecting large and giant DNA viruses with genomes encoding a variety of functions. Here, by leveraging the Global Ocean Eukaryotic Viral database, we investigate the biogeography and functional repertoire of these viruses at a global scale...
October 12, 2023: Nature Communications