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Novel virocell metabolic potential revealed in agricultural soils by virus-enriched soil metagenome analysis

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Author(s):
Braga, Lucas P. P. [1, 2, 3] ; Coutinho, Felipe H. [4] ; Amgarten, Deyvid E. [1] ; Kot, Witold [5] ; Hansen, Lars [5] ; Setubal, Joao C. [1] ; Philippot, Laurent [2]
Total Authors: 7
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Chem, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Burgundy Franche Comte, Agroecol Dept, AgroSup Dijon, INRAE, Dijon - France
[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Plant Sci, Ecosyst & Global Change Grp, Cambridge - England
[4] Univ Miguel Henandez, Evolutionary Genom Grp, Alicante - Spain
[5] Univ Copenhagen, Dept Plant & Environm Sci, Frederiksberg - Denmark
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS; v. 13, n. 3, p. 348-354, JUN 2021.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Viruses are now recognized as important players in microbial dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the oceans. Yet, compared with aquatic ecosystems, virus discovery in terrestrial ecosystems has been challenging partly due to the inherent complexity of soils. To expand our understanding of soil viruses and their putative contributions to soil microbial processes, we analysed metagenomes of community-level virus-enriched suspensions by tangential flow filtration obtained from two French agricultural soils. We found viral sequences representing a total of 239 viral operational taxonomic units that corresponded to 29.5% of the mapping reads in the metagenomic datasets. The analysis of their genomic sequences revealed novel virocell metabolic potential with implications to virus-host interactions, carbon cycling, plant-beneficial functions in the rhizosphere, horizontal gene transfer and other relevant microbial strategies applied to survive in soils. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 18/19247-0 - Unraveling the Role of Phages on the Evolution of Plant Beneficial and Pathogenic Rhizobacteria
Grantee:Lucas Palma Perez Braga
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
FAPESP's process: 19/24097-0 - Screening for ecogenomic signatures of phage-bacteria interactions in natural microbiomes exposed to environmental disturbances
Grantee:Lucas Palma Perez Braga
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor