Prolonged grazing reduces the diversity and weakens virus-host links of metagenome-assembled viral community in acidic karst soil
Ran Xue, Zhou Li, Wangfei Qin, Yiling Wang, Kankan Zhao, Lin Liu, Yanfu Bai · 2025
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Ran Xue and six co-authors study how long-term grazing changes the viruses living in acidic karst soil, in a 2025 paper. Soil viruses shape bacterial communities and nutrient cycles, yet land use effects on them are little known. The team compared four land regimes after reclamation: unused land, grazed pasture, abandoned pasture, and fertilized grazed pasture. Genome-resolved methods catalogued both bacterial and viral communities in each.
Both communities differed clearly across the regimes. Grazing lowered viral diversity and loosened the links between viruses and their bacterial hosts. The team also profiled the extra metabolic genes viruses carry, which can steer soil chemistry. The findings warn that grazing management reaches deeper than plants and animals, down to the viral layer that helps run the soil.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ran Xue, Zhou Li, Wangfei Qin, Yiling Wang, Kankan Zhao, Lin Liu, Yanfu Bai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |