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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil.

Evan P Starr, Erin E Nuccio, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Jillian F Banfield, Mary K Firestone

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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112 citing papers in PubMed, 256 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Evan P StarrDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Erin E NuccioPhysical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550.
Jennifer Pett-RidgePhysical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550.
Jillian F BanfieldDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; jbanfield@berkeley.edu mkfstone@berkeley.edu.
Mary K FirestoneEarth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720; jbanfield@berkeley.edu mkfstone@berkeley.edu.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USInnovative Genomics Institute · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses impact nearly all organisms on Earth, with ripples of influence in agriculture, health, and biogeochemical processes. However, very little is known about RNA viruses in an environmental context, and even less is known about their diversity and ecology in soil, 1 of the most complex microbial systems. Here, we assembled 48 individual metatranscriptomes from 4 habitats within a planted soil sampled over a 22-d time series: Rhizosphere alone, detritosphere alone, rhizosphere with added root detritus, and unamended soil (4 time points and 3 biological replicates). We resolved the RNA viral community, uncovering a high diversity of viral sequences. We also investigated possible host organisms by analyzing metatranscriptome marker genes. Based on viral phylogeny, much of the diversity was

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Soil MicrobiologyTranscriptomeBacteriaBacteriophagesCarbonCarbon CycleEcologyFungiHost Microbial InteractionsLeviviridaePhylogenyRhizosphereRNA VirusesSequence AnalysisSoilCarbonSoilmetatranscriptomephagerhizospheresoilvirus

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PMID31772013
PMCPMC6926006
OpenAlexW2989983670

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