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Complete genome sequence and lytic phase transcription profile of a CoccolithovirusWilliam H Wilson
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Science 309:1090-2. 2005..Microarray transcriptomic analysis reveals that 65% of the predicted virus-encoded genes are expressed during lytic infection of E. huxleyi...
Use of microarrays to assess viral diversity: from genotype to phenotypeMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Environ Microbiol 9:971-82. 2007....
From small hosts come big viruses: the complete genome of a second Ostreococcus tauri virus, OtV-1Karen D Weynberg
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
Environ Microbiol 11:2821-39. 2009..This new sequence data may help to redefine the classification of the core genes of these viruses and shed new light on their evolutionary history...
Locus-specific gene expression pattern suggests a unique propagation strategy for a giant algal virusMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom
J Virol 80:7699-705. 2006..Secondary-phase transcription may then be conducted in the cytoplasm...
Evolutionary history of the CoccolithoviridaeMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 23:86-92. 2006..Furthermore, the presence of six RNA polymerase subunits (unique among the Phycodnaviridae) suggests both a unique evolutionary history and a unique lifestyle for this intriguing virus...
Aquatic virus diversity accessed through omic techniques: a route map to functionMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
Curr Opin Microbiol 11:226-32. 2008..It is an exciting new era for virus ecology and when used in combination with more traditional approaches, virus genomics will give us access to their ecological function on an unprecedented scale...
Genome comparison of two CoccolithovirusesMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Virol J 3:15. 2006..The Coccolithoviridae is a recently discovered family of viruses that infect the marine coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi. Following on from the sequencing of the type strain EhV-86, we have sequenced a second strain, EhV-163...
The coccolithovirus microarray: an array of usesMichael J Allen
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 5:273-9. 2006..The microarray has been used to aid the annotation of the genome, to investigate the infection process at the transcriptional level and to assess the diversity in genomic content within the family...
Molecular dynamics of Emiliania huxleyi and cooccurring viruses during two separate mesocosm studiesJoaquín Martínez Martínez
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:554-62. 2007....
Genome sequence of Ostreococcus tauri virus OtV-2 throws light on the role of picoeukaryote niche separation in the oceanKaren D Weynberg
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom
J Virol 85:4520-9. 2011..Such piecemeal accretion of genes is a trademark of large double-stranded DNA viruses that has allowed them to adapt their propagation strategies to keep up with host niche separation in the sunlit layers of the oceanic environment...
Genetic diversity of marine Synechococcus and co-occurring cyanophage communities: evidence for viral control of phytoplanktonMartin Muhling
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
Environ Microbiol 7:499-508. 2005..These observations are consistent with cyanophage infection being a major controlling factor in picophytoplankton succession...
Characterization of a latent virus-like infection of symbiotic zooxanthellaeJayme Lohr
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:2976-81. 2007..The unique host-virus system described here provides insight into the role of latent infections in zooxanthellae through environmentally regulated viral induction mechanisms...
Unveiling the transcriptional features associated with coccolithovirus infection of natural Emiliania huxleyi bloomsAntónio Pagarete
Equipe EPPO Evolution du Plancton et PaléoOcéans, CNRS UMR7144, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Station Biologique, Roscoff, France
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 78:555-64. 2011..The results herein reveal the scale, so far massively underestimated, of the transcriptional domination that occurs during coccolithovirus infection in the natural environment...
Detection of virus mRNA within infected host cells using an isothermal nucleic acid amplification assay: marine cyanophage gene expression within Synechococcus spSusan D Wharam
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575, USA
Virol J 4:52. 2007..Cyanophages are viruses that infect cyanobacteria. Marine cyanophages are ubiquitous in the surface layers of the ocean where they infect members of the globally important genus Synechococcus...
Virus succession observed during an Emiliania huxleyi bloomDeclan C Schroeder
Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:2484-90. 2003..huxleyi bloom in a mesocosm experiment off western Norway. We reveal that, despite the presence of several virus genotypes at the start of an E. huxleyi bloom, only a few virus genotypes eventually go on to kill the bloom...
Identification of a diagnostic marker to detect freshwater cyanophages of filamentous cyanobacteriaAndrea C Baker
Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 2PB, United Kingdom
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:5713-9. 2006..The probes are thought to provide a useful tool for the investigation of cyanophage diversity in freshwater environments...
Annotation of environmental OMICS data: application to the transcriptomics domainNorman Morrison
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
OMICS 10:172-8. 2006..Finally, we make an open call to the community for participation in the Env Community and its future activities...
The genome of S-PM2, a "photosynthetic" T4-type bacteriophage that infects marine Synechococcus strainsNicholas H Mann
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
J Bacteriol 187:3188-200. 2005..This hypothesis originates from the identification of multiple phage-mediated modifications of the host's photosynthetic apparatus that appear to be essential for maintaining energy production during the lytic cycle...
Pilot study of an EST approach of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi during a virus infectionJessica Kegel
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, D 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Gene 406:209-16. 2007..However, after 24 h viral transcripts were most abundant. Viral transcripts found at this stage of viral infection encode proteins involved in protein degradation, nucleic acid degradation, transcription and replication...
Expression of a novel marine viral single-chain serine palmitoyltransferase and construction of yeast and mammalian single-chain chimeraGongshe Han
Department of Biochemistry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20184, USA
J Biol Chem 281:39935-42. 2006..This suggests that expression of other multisubunit membrane proteins as single-chain chimera could provide a powerful approach to the characterization of integral membrane proteins...
