Glacier ice archives fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses
Z.-P. Zhong, N. E. Solonenko, Y.-F. Li, M. C. Gazitua, S. Roux, M. E. Davis, J. L. Van Etten, E. Mosley-Thompson, V. I. Rich, M. B. Sullivan, L. G. Thompson
This paper develops clean sampling methods to study microbes and viruses in glacier ice, revealing 33 viral populations including potential novel genera and their associations with bacteria.
bioRxiv · Jan 3, 2020Ecology