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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 2171-2183Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02744.x
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- NSF Microbial Observatories, Biological Oceanography and Dimensions in Biodiversity Programs [0703159, 1031743, 1136818]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1031743, 1136818] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0703159] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Marine myoviruses (i.e. bacteriophages with a contractile tail sheath) are numerically abundant and genetically diverse. We developed a terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism assay (TRFLP) for g23, the conserved gene encoding the major capsid protein, to investigate T4-like myovirus communities at USC's Microbial Observatory at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series (SPOT), where we previously reported bacterial seasonality. Between 71 and 154 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were observed monthly over 3 years. Roughly 25% of OTUs were detected in 31 or more months. T4-like myoviral community structure varied seasonally with some OTUs peaking repeatedly in springsummer and others in fallwinter, while moderately abundant OTUs persisted year-round. Recurring community structure was demonstrated using discriminant function analysis (DFA, selecting taxa that best predict months) and average BrayCurtis similarity. DFA showed communities from adjacent months or 12 months apart were positively auto-correlated, while communities 37 months apart were negatively auto-correlated. BrayCurtis similarity was highest between adjacent months with a local maximum at 12-month and local minima at 6- and 18- to 20-month lags. The T4-like virus community at SPOT exhibited seasonality, yet the somewhat unexpected persistence of moderately abundant OTUs and predictability of the community add new twists to existing conceptual models of marine viruses.
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