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Use of Viral Metagenomes from Yellowstone Hot Springs to Study Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution

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High-temperature subterrestrial aquifers are vast ecosystems fueled solely by chemical reducing potential rather than solar radiation as is the case for surface life (Fournier 2005). The volume of the global thermal aquifer has been estimated as high as 1019 L (Gold 1992), with microbial and viral abundances approaching those of the oceans (Breitbart et al. 2004b). This study, previously reported in Pride and Schoenfeld (2008), Schoenfeld et al. (2008), and Heidelberg et al. (2009), examined planktonic viruses directly isolated from two mildly alkaline siliceous hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP). With temperatures of 74 °C and 93 °C, life in these springs is comprised exclusively of bacterial and archaeal cells and viruses, all uniquely adapted to the temperature and chemistry extremes of the environment (Reysenbach et al. 2002). The springs in these water-driven systems are direct outflows of the thermal aquifer and not secondarily heated surface water, as...

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Schoenfeld, T., Mead, D. (2014). Use of Viral Metagenomes from Yellowstone Hot Springs to Study Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_201-3

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