Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples, which is part of the PLoS Global Ocean Sampling Collection. Please join in the discussion.
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Before we start in on new stuff, let's recap what we've covered so far.
In an earlier post I
observed that "Seixon does not understand sampling". Seixon removed
any doubt about this with his comments on that post and
A recent PLoS Medicine paper suggests so:
I'm preparing material for this week's class on
Congratulations! It is interesting to note that the marine virus research has been more exposed, especially by new technology- metagenomic.
Perhaps a new paradigm of virus will be emerging by the discoveries in marine viruses; evolving from lethal pathogens to ecosystem regulators.
Sometimes, I wonder that the axis of biological world is in the domain of virus, not in the protista. It is my primary speculation.
As a shrimp virus technician for the last 20 years, I have seen the light from the other tunnel to compliment our human-centered view of the universe. It may change our health management and clinic protocol.
Let us explore this frontier with cautious speculation. And wish the research team with high motivations.