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Distinct Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses Exist in Different Soil Types

Overview of attention for article published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2015
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Title
Distinct Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses Exist in Different Soil Types
Published in
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2015
DOI 10.1128/aem.03878-14
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Brian Reavy, Maud M. Swanson, Peter J. A. Cock, Lorna Dawson, Thomas E. Freitag, Brajesh K. Singh, Lesley Torrance, Arcady R. Mushegian, Michael Taliansky

Abstract

Potential dependence of virus populations on soil types was examined by electron microscopy and the total abundance of virus particles in four soil types was similar to that previously observed in soil samples. Four soil types examined differed in the relative abundances of four morphological groups of viruses. Machair, a unique type of coastal soil in western Scotland and Ireland, differed from others tested in having a higher proportion of tailed bacteriophages. The other soils examined contained predominantly spherical and thin filamentous virus particles but the Machair soil had more even distribution of the virus types. As the first step to look at differences in populations in detail virus sequences from Machair and brown earth (agricultural pasture) soils were examined by metagenomic sequencing after enriching for circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS-DNA) virus genomes. Sequences from the Microviridae family (icosahedral viruses mainly infecting bacteria) of CRESS-DNA viruses were predominant in both soils. Phylogenetic analysis of Microviridae major coat protein sequences from the Machair viruses showed that they spanned most of the diversity of the subfamily Gokushovirinae, which mainly infect obligate intracellular parasites. The brown earth soil had a higher proportion of sequences that matched in BLAST searches the morphologically similar Circoviridae family. However, analysis of putative replicase proteins that were similar to those of viruses in the Circoviridae showed that they are a novel clade of Circoviridae-related CRESS-DNA viruses distinct from known Circoviridae genera. Different soils have substantially different taxonomic biodiversity even within ssDNA viruses which may be driven by physicochemical factors.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Germany 1 1%
France 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 80 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 31%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 30%
Student > Master 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Other 4 5%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 7 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 20%
Environmental Science 9 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 8%
Physics and Astronomy 2 2%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 11 13%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 February 2016.
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#7,959,659
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Outputs of similar age from Applied and Environmental Microbiology
#61
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