🚨vConTACT3 now in Nature Biotechnology:
- >95% agreement with ICTV for known viruses
- Classifies both prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses
- Extends beyond genus → subfamily, family & order
- Systematically assigns taxonomy to tens of thousands of previously unclassified viruses
New paper from @adjiep.bsky.social on viral impacts in groundwater at Nature Comms. Congratulations Adjie and team!
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#viruses #viromics #groundwater
Critical review for integrating viruses into ocean modelling now in Frontiers: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Bringing viruses into Earth system models will sharpen predictions of carbon sequestration, nutrient retention, and climate sensitivity in the ocean.
🚨NEW PAPER @isme-microbes.bsky.social on phage-bacteria dynamics. Collab between us and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social labs. "Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics". 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Abstract. Diverse phage-bacteria communities coexist at high densities in environmental, agricultural, and human-associated microbiomes. Phage-bacteria coe
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Sullivan Lab at OSU
Viruses transform microbes, populations, & ecosystems.
In new work jointly led w/@tn-marine-micro.bsky.social + more, we find a link between enhanced viral infection and productivity 50 meters below the surface in the otherwise nutrient limited Sargasso Sea.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper 🔔
Collaboration
@sullivan-lab.bsky.social
Marissa Gittrich led the work
Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape
