Friday, May 16, 2014
Viruses and the Global Sulfur Cycle
A new paper published in Science from Professor Dick's lab in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at U-M
Sulfur Oxidation Genes in Diverse Deep-Sea Viruses
Karthik Anantharaman, Greg Dick and colleagues show that viruses are a key reservoir of genetic diversity for bacteria that oxidize elemental sulfur in deep ocean hydrothermal plumes (Science 344, 757-760; 2014).