Hot springs viruses at Yellowstone National Park have ancient origins and are adapted to thermophilic hosts

Abstract Geothermal springs house unicellular red algae in the class Cyanidiophyceae that dominate the microbial biomass at these sites. Little is known about host-virus interactions in these environments. We analyzed the virus community associated with red algal mats in three neighboring habitats (...

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Main Authors: L. Felipe Benites, Timothy G. Stephens, Julia Van Etten, Timeeka James, William C. Christian, Kerrie Barry, Igor V. Grigoriev, Timothy R. McDermott, Debashish Bhattacharya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05931-1