The ‘Neglected’ Soil Virome – Potential Role and Impact

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 649-662

  Pratama, Akbar Adjie ^a   van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ecology; evolution; soil; virus community

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL MICROBIOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSPHERE; CAUDOVIRALES; CIRCOVIRIDAE; COEVOLUTION; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GEOBACILLUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INOVIRIDAE; LYSOGENIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYOVIRIDAE; NANOVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PODOVIRIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGULON; REVIEW; RHIZOSPHERE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; SOIL; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL VIROME; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIOPHAGES; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85039867910     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.12.004     Document Type: Review

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