A complex web of interaction among viruses, bacteria and their environment is becoming ever more untangled by a growing international collaboration between Matthew Sullivan, associate professor in the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Steven Hallam from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
"Bacteria are drivers of nutrient and energy cycles that power the earth," said Sullivan, who is also a member of the UA's BIO5 Institute. "As the climate is changing, so are the environments these bacteria live in, and they in turn loop back to impact their environments. Viruses are also in the mix mediating microbial processes, but how and to what extent? Those are the questions we are trying to answer."
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A new study reveals the
interactions among bacteria and viruses that prey on them thriving in
oxygen minimum zones—stretches of ocean starved for oxygen that occur
around the globe. Understanding such microbial communities in their
natural environments is an important step in understanding global
processes, including climate.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-interactions-earth-smallest-players-global.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-interactions-earth-smallest-players-global.html#jCp
A new study reveals the
interactions among bacteria and viruses that prey on them thriving in
oxygen minimum zones—stretches of ocean starved for oxygen that occur
around the globe. Understanding such microbial communities in their
natural environments is an important step in understanding global
processes, including climate.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-interactions-earth-smallest-players-global.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-interactions-earth-smallest-players-global.html#jCp
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