James Nulton

TL;DR: The first metagenomic analyses of an uncultured viral community from human feces, using partial shotgun sequencing, show that the recognizable viruses were mostly siphophages, and the community contained an estimated 1,200 viral genotypes.

TL;DR: In this first study to comprehensively survey viral communities using a metagenomic approach, it is found that soil viruses are taxonomically diverse and distinct from the communities of viruses found in other environments that have been surveyed using a similar approach.

TL;DR: Metagenomic sequencing of DNA viruses from the feces of a healthy week-old infant revealed a viral community with extremely low diversity, dominated by phages, which likely influence the diversity and abundance of co-occurring microbes.

TL;DR: It is proposed that marine–sediment viral communities are one of the largest unexplored reservoirs of sequence space on the planet.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis drawing on all publicly available viral metagenomes observed a mere 257,698 viral genotypes on Earth-an unrealistically low number-which attests to the current paucity of viral meetagenomic data.