Viral part of the biosphere
Virosphere (virus diversity, virus world, global virosphere) was coined to refer to all those places in which viruses are found or which are affected by viruses.[ 1] [ 2] However, more recently virosphere has also been used to refer to the pool of viruses that occurs in all hosts and all environments,[ 3] as well as viruses associated with specific types of hosts (prokaryotic virosphere,[ 4] archaeal virosphere,[ 5] Invertebrate virosphere),[ 6] type of genome (RNA virosphere,[ 7] dsDNA virosphere)[ 8] or ecological niche (marine virosphere).[ 9]
^ "World Wide Words: Virosphere" . World Wide Words . Retrieved 2023-04-13 .
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^ Abroi, Aare; Gough, Julian (2011). "Are viruses a source of new protein folds for organisms? – Virosphere structure space and evolution" . BioEssays . 33 (8): 626–635. doi :10.1002/bies.201000126 . ISSN 1521-1878 . PMID 21633962 . S2CID 6680980 .
^ Krupovic, Mart; Prangishvili, David; Hendrix, Roger W.; Bamford, Dennis H. (2011). "Genomics of Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses: Dynamics within the Prokaryotic Virosphere" . Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews . 75 (4): 610–635. doi :10.1128/mmbr.00011-11 . PMC 3232739 . PMID 22126996 .
^ Prangishvili, David; Bamford, Dennis H.; Forterre, Patrick; Iranzo, Jaime; Koonin, Eugene V.; Krupovic, Mart (December 2017). "The enigmatic archaeal virosphere" . Nature Reviews Microbiology . 15 (12): 724–739. doi :10.1038/nrmicro.2017.125 . ISSN 1740-1534 . PMID 29123227 . S2CID 21789564 .
^ Shi, Mang; Lin, Xian-Dan; Tian, Jun-Hua; Chen, Liang-Jun; Chen, Xiao; Li, Ci-Xiu; Qin, Xin-Cheng; Li, Jun; Cao, Jian-Ping; Eden, John-Sebastian; Buchmann, Jan (December 2016). "Redefining the invertebrate RNA virosphere" . Nature . 540 (7634): 539–543. Bibcode :2016Natur.540..539S . doi :10.1038/nature20167 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMID 27880757 . S2CID 1198891 .
^ Urayama, Syun-ichi; Takaki, Yoshihiro; Nishi, Shinro; Yoshida-Takashima, Yukari; Deguchi, Shigeru; Takai, Ken; Nunoura, Takuro (2018). "Unveiling the RNA virosphere associated with marine microorganisms" . Molecular Ecology Resources . 18 (6): 1444–1455. doi :10.1111/1755-0998.12936 . ISSN 1755-0998 . PMID 30256532 . S2CID 52821905 .
^ Iranzo, Jaime; Krupovic, Mart; Koonin, Eugene V. (2016). "The Double-Stranded DNA Virosphere as a Modular Hierarchical Network of Gene Sharing" . mBio . 7 (4). doi :10.1128/mbio.00978-16 . PMC 4981718 . PMID 27486193 .
^ Mizuno, Carolina Megumi; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco; Kimes, Nikole E.; Ghai, Rohit (2013-12-12). "Expanding the Marine Virosphere Using Metagenomics" . PLOS Genetics . 9 (12): e1003987. doi :10.1371/journal.pgen.1003987 . ISSN 1553-7404 . PMC 3861242 . PMID 24348267 .