There are more viruses in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way – and they’re fundamental to Earth’s biodiversity.

Establishing virus–host relationships has historically relied on culture-dependent approaches. Here we report on the use of marine metatranscriptomics to probe virus–host relationships.

Original story from University of Miami (FL, USA). Study reveals new insights into giant viruses and their role in marine ecosystems. Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine ...

Viruses might be the most successful and influential biological entities on Earth—and they’re interwoven into every ecosystem there is.

But in virus sizes, these new ones are positively enormous. A giant virus (yes, it’s a scientific term) can be as large as two microns. For context, if you were to pull out a piece of your hair, it ...

Weitz and colleagues use a biophysical scaling model of intact virus particles to quantify differences in the elemental stoichiometry of marine viruses compared with their microbial hosts. They ...

By looking at the tiniest virus-infected microbes in the ocean, researchers are gaining new insights about the marine food web that may help improve future climate change predictions. The new ...

How Marine Bacteria Have Evolved Passive Protection Against Viruses Marine bacteria use reduced tRNA levels as passive resistance against viral infections, ensuring survival in the ocean.

Virologists have tracked the co-ocurrence of large and small viruses in marine microorganisms, but the nature of their interactions has not been clearly defined.

New research provides the most complete account to date of the viruses that impact the world's oceans, increasing the number of known virus populations tenfold. Researchers analyzed marine samples ...

Large variability in abundance of viruses that infect ocean microorganisms Date: January 25, 2016 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Summary: Marine microorganisms play a critical role in ...

Newly discovered marine viruses offer glimpse into untapped biodiversity Date: July 24, 2013 Source: University of Arizona Summary: Studying bacteria from the Baltic Sea, researchers have ...