First Insights into the Viral Communities of the Deep-sea Anoxic Brines of the Red Sea
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Antunes, Andre
Alam, Intikhab
Simoes, Marta
Daniels, Camille Arian

Ferreira, Ari J.S.
Siam, Rania
El-Dorry, Hamza
Bajic, Vladimir B.

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Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
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2015-11-04Online Publication Date
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2015-10Permanent link to this record
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The deep-sea brines of the Red Sea include some of the most extreme and unique environments on Earth. They combine high salinities with increases in temperature, heavy metals, hydrostatic pressure, and anoxic conditions, creating unique settings for thriving populations of novel extremophiles. Despite a recent increase of studies focusing on these unusual biotopes, their viral communities remain unexplored. The current survey explores four metagenomic datasets obtained from different brine-seawater interface samples, focusing specifically on the diversity of their viral communities. Data analysis confirmed that the particle-attached viral communities present in the brine-seawater interfaces were diverse and generally dominated by Caudovirales, yet appearing distinct from sample to sample. With a level of caution, we report the unexpected finding of Phycodnaviridae, which infects algae and plants, and trace amounts of insect-infecting Iridoviridae. Results from Kebrit Deep revealed stratification in the viral communities present in the interface: the upper-interface was enriched with viruses associated with typical marine bacteria, while the lower-interface was enriched with haloviruses and halophages. These results provide first insights into the unexplored viral communities present in deep-sea brines of the Red Sea, representing one of the first steps for ongoing and future sampling efforts and studies.Citation
First Insights into the Viral Communities of the Deep-sea Anoxic Brines of the Red Sea 2015 Genomics, Proteomics & BioinformaticsPublisher
Elsevier BVPubMed ID
26529193Additional Links
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1672022915001370ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.gpb.2015.06.004
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