Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Adriaenssens, Evelien M."

Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Adriaenssens, Evelien M."

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  • Diversity and ecology of viruses in hyperarid desert soils 
    Zablocki, Olivier; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Cowan, Don A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2016-02)
    In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the field of virus environmental ecology. In marine ecosystems for example, viruses are now thought to play pivotal roles in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients ...
  • Draft genome sequence of the aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium Sphingobium sp. strain Ant17, isolated from Antarctic soil 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Guerrero, Leandro D.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Aislabie, Jackie M.; Cowan, Don A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014-03)
    Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Sphingobium sp. strain Ant17, an aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium that was isolated from Antarctic oil-contaminated soil. An analysis of this genome can lead to insights ...
  • Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Kramer, Rolf; Van Goethem, Marc W.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Hogg, Ian D.; Cowan, Don A. (BioMed Central, 2017-07-19)
    BACKGROUND : The Antarctic continent is considered the coldest and driest place on earth with simple ecosystems, devoid of higher plants. Soils in the ice-free regions of Antarctica are known to harbor a wide range ...
  • Exploring viral diversity in a unique South African soil habitat 
    Segobola, Jane; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Tsekoa, Tsepo; Konanani Rashamuse; Cowan, Don A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-01-08)
    The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve in the Cape Floral Kingdom in South Africa is known for its unique plant biodiversity. The potential presence of unique microbial and viral biodiversity associated with this unique plant ...
  • Genetic signatures indicate widespread antibiotic resistance and phage infection in microbial communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica 
    Wei, Sean T.S.; Higgins, Colleen M.; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Cowan, Don A.; Pointing, Stephen B. (Springer, 2015-02)
    The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica support extensive yet cryptic microbial communities but little evidence for ‘top-down’ herbivory control. A question therefore arises as to how standing microbial biomass is regulated. ...
  • High-level diversity of tailed phages, eukaryote-associated viruses, and virophage-like elements in the metaviromes of antarctic soils 
    Zablocki, Olivier; Van Zyl, Leonardo J.; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Rubagotti, Enrico; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cary, Julie A.; Cowan, Don A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014-11)
    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 ...
  • Integration of genomic and proteomic analyses in the classification of the Siphoviridae family 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Edwards, Robert P.; Nash, John H.E.; Mahadevan, Padmanabhan; Seto, Donald; Ackermann, Hans-Wolfgang; Lavigne, Rob; Kropinski, Andrew M. (Elsevier, 2015-03)
    Using a variety of genomic (BLASTN, ClustalW) and proteomic (Phage Proteomic Tree, CoreGenes) tools we have tackled the taxonomic status of members of the largest bacteriophage family, the Siphoviridae. In all over 400 ...
  • Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib desert hypoliths 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Van Zyl, Leonardo J.; De Maayer, Pieter; Rubagotti, Enrico; Rybicki, Edward P.; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cowan, Don A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-02)
    Hypolithic microbial communities are specialized desert communities inhabiting the underside of translucent rocks where they are sheltered from harsh environmental conditions. Here, we present the first study of the viral ...
  • 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 J.; Cowan, Don A.; Trindade, Marla Iris (MDPI Publishing, 2016-01)
    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 ...
  • Niche-dependent genetic diversity in Antarctic metaviromes 
    Zablocki, Olivier; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Rubagotti, Enrico; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cowan, Don A.; Van Zyl, Lonnie; Cary, Stephen Craig (Taylor and Francis, 2014-12)
    The metaviromes from 2 different Antarctic terrestrial soil niches have been analyzed. Both hypoliths (microbial assemblages beneath transluscent rocks) and surrounding open soils showed a high level diversity of ...
  • Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses : 2016 update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Krupovic, Mart; Knezevic, Petar; Ackermann, Hans-Wolfgang; Barylski, Jakub; Brister, J. Rodney; Clokie, Martha R.C.; Duffy, Siobain; Dutilh, Bas E.; Edwards, Robert A.; Enault, Francois; Jang, Ho Bin; Klumpp, Jochen; Kropinski, Andrew M.; Lavigne, Rob; Poranen, Minna M.; Prangishvili, David; Rumnieks, Janis; Sullivan, Matthew B.; Wittmann, Johannes; Oksanen, Hanna M.; Gillis, Annika; Kuhn, Jens H. (Springer, 2017-04)
    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 [8], the committee composition has ...
  • Using signature genes as tools to assess environmental viral ecology and diversity 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Cowan, Don A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014)
    Viruses (including bacteriophages) are the most abundant biological entities on the planet. As such, they are thought to have a major impact on all aspects of microbial community structure and function. Despite this ...