Virioplankton: Viruses in Aquatic Ecosystems

By K. Wommack, R. Colwell. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2000

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Tangential flow diafiltration: an improved technique for estimation of virioplankton production (2005, background): “In addition to causing bacterial and phytoplankton death, viral lysis diverts microbial cell biomass into the DOM pool and away from higher trophic levels (Proctor & Fuhrman 1991, Bratbak et al. 1992, Fuhrman 1992, 1999, Wilhelm & Suttle 1999, Wommack & Colwell 2000).”
Lysogeny and virus‐induced mortality of bacterioplankton in surface, deep, and anoxic marine waters (2003, methodology): “…of methods for determining the frequency of lytically infected cells (FIC) and virus-induced mortality of bacterioplankton (VMB) (Fuhrman 1999; Wommack and Colwell 2000); however, at the community level, we cannot distinguish between lytic phages, lysogenic phages directly entering the lytic…”
The Pacific Ocean Virome (POV): A Marine Viral Metagenomic Dataset and Associated Protein Clusters for Quantitative Viral Ecology (2013, background): “Long-standing questions in marine viral ecology are centered on understanding the extent to which viral assemblages change spatially, temporally and under different environmental conditions in the ocean [2].”
Bacteriophages of the Human Gut: The "Known Unknown" of the Microbiome. (2019, background): “It is often postulated that viruses of bacteria are the most numerous biological entities on the planet and in many environments outnumber the counts of their prokaryotic hosts by a factor of 10 (Wommack and Colwell, 2000).”
Microbial community structure and its functional implications (2009, background): “They are crucial components of marine systems, having major effects on ecological, biogeochemical and evolutionary processe”
Bacterial abundance and production in river sediments as related to the biochemical composition of particulate organic matter (POM) (2002, background): “Lysis by viruses is a major sink for bacterial biomass production in pelagic environments (Weinbauer and Höfle 1998) and can be significantly correlated with bacterial abundance and production (Wommack and Colwell 2000).”
VICTOR: genome-based phylogeny and classification of prokaryotic viruses (2017, background): “Likewise, the role of viruses in aquatic ecosystems (Wommack and Colwell 2000), especially by infecting and lysing aquatic microorganisms, and their subsequent impact on life-cycle and evolution of groups such as Rhodobacteraceae (Simon et al. 2017), is still not fully understood.”
Reconsidering transmission electron microscopy based estimates of viral infection of bacterioplankton using conversion factors derived from natural communities (2002, background): “The incorporation of the role of viruses into the microbial food web has refined our understanding of the ecological and biogeochemical role of microorganisms in aquatic systems (Fuhrman 1999, Wilhelm & Suttle 1999, Wommack & Colwell 2000).”