IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v399y1999i6736d10.1038_21119.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Marine viruses and their biogeochemical and ecological effects

Author

Listed:
  • Jed A. Fuhrman

    (University of Southern California)

Abstract

Viruses are the most common biological agents in the sea, typically numbering ten billion per litre. They probably infect all organisms, can undergo rapid decay and replenishment, and influence many biogeochemical and ecological processes, including nutrient cycling, system respiration, particle size-distributions and sinking rates, bacterial and algal biodiversity and species distributions, algal bloom control, dimethyl sulphide formation and genetic transfer. Newly developed fluorescence and molecular techniques leave the field poised to make significant advances towards evaluating and quantifying such effects.

Suggested Citation

  • Jed A. Fuhrman, 1999. "Marine viruses and their biogeochemical and ecological effects," Nature, Nature, vol. 399(6736), pages 541-548, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:399:y:1999:i:6736:d:10.1038_21119
    DOI: 10.1038/21119
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/21119
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/21119?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sun, Zhe & Zhou, Zhi, 2019. "Nature-inspired virus-assisted algal cell disruption for cost-effective biofuel production," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 251(C), pages 1-1.
    2. Juan A. Bonachela, 2024. "Viral plasticity facilitates host diversity in challenging environments," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Smeti, Evangelia & Roelke, Daniel L. & Tsirtsis, George & Spatharis, Sofie, 2018. "Species extinctions strengthen the relationship between biodiversity and resource use efficiency," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 384(C), pages 75-86.
    4. Keller, David P. & Hood, Raleigh R., 2011. "Modeling the seasonal autochthonous sources of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in the upper Chesapeake Bay," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(5), pages 1139-1162.
    5. Yuxuan Du & Jed A. Fuhrman & Fengzhu Sun, 2023. "ViralCC retrieves complete viral genomes and virus-host pairs from metagenomic Hi-C data," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.
    6. Xiaomei Feng & Yuan Miao & Shulin Sun & Lei Wang, 2022. "Dynamic Behaviors of a Stochastic Eco-Epidemiological Model for Viral Infection in the Toxin-Producing Phytoplankton and Zooplankton System," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-18, April.
    7. Yuanmin Sun & Kunxian Tang & Hui Song & Degang Jiang & Shan Chen & Wulin Tu & Luchun Cai & Haiping Huang & Fei Zhang, 2022. "The Effect of Domestic Sewage Treatment on Islands Using Ecological Treatment Processes: A Case Study of Haimen Island, Fujian Province," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-12, November.
    8. Yantao Liang & Li Li & Tingwei Luo & Yao Zhang & Rui Zhang & Nianzhi Jiao, 2014. "Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Marine Virioplankton: A Basin Scale Investigation Based on a Global Cruise," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(11), pages 1-11, November.
    9. Stephen J. Beckett & David Demory & Ashley R. Coenen & John R. Casey & Mathilde Dugenne & Christopher L. Follett & Paige Connell & Michael C. G. Carlson & Sarah K. Hu & Samuel T. Wilson & Daniel Murat, 2024. "Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
    10. Patrick Arthofer & Florian Panhölzl & Vincent Delafont & Alban Hay & Siegfried Reipert & Norbert Cyran & Stefanie Wienkoop & Anouk Willemsen & Ines Sifaoui & Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez & Frederik Schulz & , 2024. "A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
    11. Krishna, Shubham & Peterson, Victoria & Listmann, Luisa & Hinners, Jana, 2024. "Interactive effects of viral lysis and warming in a coastal ocean identified from an idealized ecosystem model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 487(C).
    12. Christian Winter & Jérôme P Payet & Curtis A Suttle, 2012. "Modeling the Winter–to–Summer Transition of Prokaryotic and Viral Abundance in the Arctic Ocean," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(12), pages 1-14, December.
    13. Yang Huang & Hui Sun & Shuzhen Wei & Lanlan Cai & Liqin Liu & Yanan Jiang & Jiabao Xin & Zhenqin Chen & Yuqiong Que & Zhibo Kong & Tingting Li & Hai Yu & Jun Zhang & Ying Gu & Qingbing Zheng & Shaowei, 2023. "Structure and proposed DNA delivery mechanism of a marine roseophage," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-15, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:399:y:1999:i:6736:d:10.1038_21119. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.