ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Host-virus interactions in marine diatoms across environmental and ecophysiological gradients
Diatoms shape the global carbon cycle, contributing ~20% of primary production on the planet and nearly half of the carbon sequestration in the ocean. Marine viruses transform ecological, evolutionary and biogeochemical processes, yet the impact of viral infection on diatoms remains a fundamental gap in our understanding of microbial dynamics in the ocean. The landmark discovery of diatom-infecting viruses, together with advances in high throughput sequencing and imaging technologies now enable the exploration of diatom host-virus interactions at unprecedented resolution. We know very little about when, where and how viruses impact diatom populations, despite the potential for viral…
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