Elements of a theory for the mechanisms controlling abundance, diversity, and biogeochemical role of lytic bacterial viruses in aquatic systems

By T. Thingstad. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Emerging concepts on microbial processes in the bathypelagic ocean-ecology, biogeochemistry, and genomics (2010, result): “This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that resources are highly heterogeneous in the bathypelagic environment, although mortality (grazing and viral lysis) may also shape community structure (Thingstad, 2000; Pernthaler, 2005).”
• Effects of small-scale turbulence on the growth of two diatoms of different size in a phosphorus-limited medium (2006, background): “Parameterizations Thingstad et al. (1997) Bacteria 10 Algae 5 Thingstad et al.”
• Genetic diversity and evolution in eukaryotic phytoplankton: revelations from population genetic studies (2017, background): “Parasitism, which commonly occurs in phytoplankton blooms (Kagami et al., 2007; Chambouvet et al., 2008), has been considered an example of NFDS (the “kill-the-winner” hypothesis, Thingstad, 2000).”
• Bacteria–phage coevolution as a driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities (2014, background): “…phages hold potential to mediate competition among bacterial species, as has been discussed in great detail in light of the ‘kill the winner hypothesis’, in which population growth by otherwise dominant bacterial species is hampered by phage infection (Thingstad, 2000; Winter et al., 2010).”
• Response of bacterial and viral communities to nutrient manipulations in seawater mesocosms (2003, methodology): “This is illustrated by the near 1:1 ratio (ranging between 0.5 and 1.5, mean 0.98) between PFGE and DGGE band numbers, and provides circumstantial evidence that theories assuming viral control of bacterial diversity (Thingstad 2000) may capture important aspects of system functioning.”
• Effects of increased atmospheric CO 2 on small and intermediate sized osmotrophs during a nutrient induced phytoplankton bloom (2007, background): “(2007) suggests that viruses played an essential role for the dynamics within each of the three populations of small osmotrophs (Thingstad, 2000).”
• Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological implications (2005, background): “The main sources of microbial mortality in the water column are currently considered to be viral-mediated lysis and grazing by PHAGOTROPHIC protist”
• Changes in community properties during microbial succession (2003, neutral): “competitive) bacterial populations (Thingstad 2000).”
• Efficiency of phage cocktails in the inactivation of Vibrio in aquaculture (2014, result): “These results are in agreement with previous studies that showed that some phages may infect more than one related species of bacteria or even genus (Carlton, 1999; Thingstad, 2000).”