Browsing Faculty of Natural Sciences by Author "Adriaenssens, Evelien M."
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High-level diversity of tailed phages, eukaryote-associated viruses, and virophage-like elements in the metaviromes of Antarctic soils
Zablocki, Olivier; van Zyl, Lonnie; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Rubagotti, Enrico; Tuffin, Marla; Cary, Stephen Craig; Cowan, Donald A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014)The metaviromes of two distinct Antarctic hyperarid desert soil communities have been characterized. Hypolithic communities, cyanobacterium-dominated assemblages situated on the ventral surfaces of quartz pebbles embedded ... -
Metaviromics of namib desert salt pans: a novel lineage of haloarchaeal salterproviruses and a rich source of ssDNA viruses
Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim (MDPI, 2016)Viral communities of two different salt pans located in the Namib Desert, Hosabes and Eisfeld, were investigated using a combination of multiple displacement amplification of metaviromic DNA and deep sequencing, and provided ... -
Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee
Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Wittmann, Johannes; Kuhn, Jens H.; van Zyl, Leonardo J. (Springer, 2018)The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report [5], the committee composition has ...