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Saline lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau harbor unique viral assemblages mediating microbial environmental adaption
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Gu, C and Liang, Y and Li, J and Shao, H and Jiang, Y and Zhou, X and Gao, C and Li, X and Zhang, W and Guo, C and He, H and Wang, H and Sung, YY and Mok, WJ and Wong, LL and Suttle, CA and McMinn, A and Tian, J and Wang, M, Saline lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau harbor unique viral assemblages mediating microbial environmental adaption, iScience, 24, (12) Article 103439. ISSN 2589-0042 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.103439
Abstract
The highest plateau on Earth, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, contains thousands of lakes with broad salinity and diverse and unique microbial communities. However, little is known about their co-occurring viruses. Herein, we identify 4,560 viral Operational Taxonomic Units (vOTUs) from six viromes of three saline lakes on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with less than 1% that could be classified. Most of the predicted vOTUs were associated with the dominant bacterial and archaeal phyla. Virus-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes suggest that viruses influence microbial metabolisms of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and lipid; the antibiotic resistance mediation; and their salinity adaption. The six viromes clustered together with the ice core viromes and bathypelagic ocean viromes and might represent a new viral habitat. This study has revealed the unique characteristics and potential ecological roles of DNA viromes in the lakes of the highest plateau and established a foundation for the recognition of the viral roles in plateau lake ecosystems.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | virus, Qinghai, Tibet, lakes |
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Microbiology |
| Research Field: | Virology |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Terrestrial systems and management |
| Objective Field: | Terrestrial biodiversity |
| UTAS Author: | McMinn, A (Professor Andrew McMinn) |
| ID Code: | 147999 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | Ecology and Biodiversity |
| Deposited On: | 2021-11-29 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-12-08 |
| Downloads: | 11 View Download Statistics |
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