Are viruses driving microbial diversification and diversity?

By M. Weinbauer, F. Rassoulzadegan. Environmental Microbiology, 2003

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Viriobenthos in freshwater and marine sediments : a review (2008, neutral): “…cursory consideration in reviews on viruses in aquatic ecosystems (Fuhrman, 1999; Wilhelm & Suttle, 1999; Wommack & Colwell, 2000; Sime-Ngando et al., 2003; Weinbauer, 2004; Weinbauer & Rassoulzadegan, 2004; Breitbart & Rohwer, 2005; Hambly & Suttle, 2005; Suttle, 2005; Jackson & Jackson, 2008).”
Detailed Genomic Analysis of the Wβ and γ Phages Infecting Bacillus anthracis: Implications for Evolution of Environmental Fitness and Antibiotic Resistance (2006, background): “structure and the global cycling of organic matter (16, 68).”
The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape (2006, background): “surmise that “feeding on bacteria by flagellates and ciliates perhaps represents the oldest predator-prey interaction we can study in nature” (258), but others speculate that prior to protistan grazing “viruses were probably the main predators of cells in the prokaryotic world” (361).”
Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism (2009, background): “Once thought of as ‘slow viruses’, prions are now commonly understood to be self-propagating proteins that are able to convert normal proteins of the same type into the pathogenic prion conformation (Weissmann 2004; Prusiner 1998; Soto and Saborio 2001).”
The Messinian Salinity Crisis from mega-deposits to microbiology – A consensus report (2008, background): “, 1999; Weinbauer, 2004) and a good part (10-40%) of the bacterial production is lysed by viruses, equalling on average grazing-induced mortality (Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan, 2004).”
Ecology of viruses in soils: Past, present and future perspectives (2008, background): “These findings indicate that comparable genomic information is preserved among viral subsets and that genomic information may be an effective tool for the phylogenetic classification of viruses and the phylogenetic evaluation of viral diversity in the environment (Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan 2004).”
Viruses in aquatic ecosystems: important advancements of the last 20 years and prospects for the future in the field of microbial oceanography and limnology (2010, background): “Viruses can also have an impact on bacterial diversity via the transfer of genes between organisms [1,26].”
Bacteria–phage coevolution as a driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities (2014, background): “…of viral and protist predators in seminatural communities of bacterioplankton found both increased bacterial richness in the presence of phages and a complex interaction between phages and protists on bacterial mortality that ranged from synergistic to antagonistic (Weinbauer et al., 2007).”
Diversity and functions of microscopic fungi: a missing component in pelagic food webs (2010, background): “Grazers and lytic viruses are considered the main actors for organic matter release and the related biochemical catalysis, while heterotrophic prokaryotes are the main mineralisers (Hoppe et al. 1993; Weinbauer and Rassoulzadegan 2004; Sime-Ngando and Colombet 2009).”