Mirko Magagnini

TL;DR: It is reported that viral production in deep-sea benthic ecosystems worldwide is extremely high, and that viral infections are responsible for the abatement of 80% of prokaryotic heterotrophic production.

TL;DR: This study investigated factors controlling the balance between viral production and decay along a trophic gradient in the north Adriatic basin, providing independent estimates of these variables and determining the relative importance of nanoflagellate grazing and viral life strategies.

TL;DR: First results from a few studies using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and especially from metagenomic analyses indicate, however, that viriobenthic assemblages are both highly diverse and distinct from the virioplankton.

TL;DR: It is proposed that low temperature increases bacterial richness while decreasing catabolic diversity and that chronic pollution promotes catabolic diversification and that the bacterial populations in chronically polluted sites may respond more promptly in degrading petroleum after accidental oil spills.

TL;DR: Investigation of microbial variables in the deep-sea sediments around two seamounts at 3000-m depth in the Tyrrhenian Sea and sediments located at the same depth, but not affected by the presence of the seamounted, found prokaryotic abundances significantly higher than those observed in non-seamount sediments and benthic viral production was about double.