Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Significance The diversity and ecology of RNA viruses is severely understudied in complex environments. Here we investigate the diversity and community patterns of soil RNA viruses by analyzing assembled metatranscriptomes. We tracked RNA viral and host communities for 22 d in 2 soil environments central to carbon cycling, the rhizosphere and detritosphere. This work is an important step toward understanding the factors that drive RNA viral communities. The main hosts in our system may be Fungi and Proteobacteria; this is in contrast to the ocean, where diatoms and other single cellular eukaryotes are primary hosts for RNA viruses. These results greatly expand the known diversity of viruses and contribute to understanding microbial interactions in soil with major implications for carbon cycling.
Authors: Evan P. Starr, Erin E. Nuccio, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Jillian F. Banfield, Mary K. Firestone
Language: English
Subfield: Virology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: G1088636562, G1286236842, G1292182912, G1337544421, G137681422, G1679750892, G1856093075, G1863003419, G2145270357, G223002938, G2699889991, G2812390658, G3083819904, G3669113783, G369607501, DIRECTING TRAFFIC IN THE RHIZOSPHERE: HOW PHAGE AND FAUNA SHAPE THE FLOW AND FATE OF ROOT CARBON THROUGH MICROBIAL PATHWAYS, G4222157410, G42916606, G4430553229, G4501827968, MULTI-'OMIC' ANALYSES OF THE DYNAMICS, MECHANISMS, AND PATHWAYS FOR CARBON TURNOVER IN GRASSLAND SOIL UNDER TWO CLIMATE REGIMES, G498139845, G5374785022, G5390658509, The Eel River Critical Zone Observatory: exploring how the critical zone will mediate watershed currencies and ecosystem response in a changing environment, G574795485, G6501917661, G6645629638, G6652958823, G6816148754, G7205239661, G7787287669, G8194813678, G8326222658, G834277795, MAPPING SOIL CARBON FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE: DRAFTING A MOLECULAR BLUEPRINT FOR C TRANSFORMATION FROM ROOTS TO STABILIZED SOIL ORGANIC C, G895790057, G969889393, G991281326
OpenAlex ID: W2989983670