- 著者
- Yanze Li Hisashi Endo Yasuhiro Gotoh Hiroyasu Watai Nana Ogawa Romain Blanc-Mathieu Takashi Yoshida Hiroyuki Ogata
- 出版者
- Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
- 雑誌
- Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.ME19037, (Released:2019-08-03)
- 被引用文献数
- 13
Giant viruses of ‘Megaviridae’ have the ability to widely disperse around the globe. We herein examined ‘Megaviridae’ communities in four distinct aquatic environments (coastal and offshore seawater, brackish water, and hot spring freshwater), which are distantly located from each other (between 74 and 1,765 km), using a meta-barcoding method. We identified between 593 and 3,627 OTUs in each sample. Some OTUs were detected in all five samples tested as well as in many of the Tara Oceans metagenomes, suggesting the existence of viruses of this family in a wide range of habitats and the ability to circulate on the planet.