Response of soil viral communities to land use changes

Hu Liao, Hu Li, Chen-Song Duan, Xin-Yuan Zhou, Qiu-Ping Luo, Xin-Li An, Yong-Guan Zhu and Jian-Qiang Su ()
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Hu Liao: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hu Li: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen-Song Duan: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xin-Yuan Zhou: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiu-Ping Luo: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xin-Li An: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong-Guan Zhu: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian-Qiang Su: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Soil viruses remain understudied when compared to virus found in aquatic ecosystems. Here, we investigate the ecological patterns of soil viral communities across various land use types encompassing forest, agricultural, and urban soil in Xiamen, China. We recovered 59,626 viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) via size-fractioned viromic approach with additional mitomycin C treatment to induce virus release from bacterial fraction. Our results show that viral communities are significantly different amongst the land use types considered. A microdiversity analysis indicates that selection act on soil vOTUs, resulting in disparities between land use associated viral communities. Soil pH is one of the major determinants of viral community structure, associated with changes of in-silico predicted host compositions of soil vOTUs. Habitat disturbance and variation of soil moisture potentially contribute to the dynamics of putative lysogenic vOTUs. These findings provide mechanistic understandings of the ecology and evolution of soil viral communities in changing environments.

Date: 2022
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