{"id":15761,"date":"2019-04-26T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=15761"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:56:14","slug":"the-arctic-ocean-reservoir-of-marine-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/the-arctic-ocean-reservoir-of-marine-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic Ocean: reservoir of marine viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new study published in <em>Cell<\/em>, based mainly on data from the <em>Tara Oceans<\/em> expedition (2009\u20132013), provides the most comprehensive catalogue of viruses found in all the world\u2019s oceans to date. It increases the number of known oceanic viral populations from 16&nbsp;000 to nearly 200&nbsp;000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work reveals the importance of the Arctic Ocean as a reservoir of marine viruses, and will become a reference for understanding the role of viruses in the way ocean ecosystems respond to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was led by&nbsp;Ohio State University in the United States, and involved teams from the CEA, CNRS, EMBL, ENS-PSL, and the Tara Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/tara-oceans\/start\/\">EMBL is where the idea for Tara Oceans was born<\/a>. EMBL scientist Eric Karsenti initiated the expedition and led its scientific activities. More than 35&nbsp;000 samples from the world\u2019s oceans were collected during the Tara Oceans expedition. EMBL coordinates the expedition\u2019s scientific consortium, which includes more than 100 scientists from 18 partner institutions. EMBL continues to make crucial contributions in data analysis, data storage, and in making all data publicly available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the full press release at: <a href=\"https:\/\/oceans.taraexpeditions.org\/en\/m\/science\/news\/press-release-taraoceans_cell\/\">https:\/\/oceans.taraexpeditions.org\/en\/m\/science\/news\/press-release-taraoceans_cell\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from the Tara Oceans expedition reveal the Arctic Ocean as a cradle of viral biodiversity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17591],"tags":[818,87,819,684,817,539,816,190,659],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-15761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-science-technology","tag-arctic","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-ocean","tag-research-highlight","tag-tara","tag-tara-oceans","tag-virus"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Results from the Tara Oceans expedition reveal the importance of the Arctic Ocean as a cradle of viral biodiversity<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"Science at sea","link_url":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/science-at-sea\/"},{"link_description":"Supporting science at sea","link_url":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/1605-tara-sarmento\/"},{"link_description":"An ocean odyssey","link_url":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/1508_ocean-odyssey\/"}],"article_sources":[{"source_description":"<p>Ann C Gregory, Ahmed A Zayed, N\u00e1dia Concei\u00e7\u00e3o-Neto, Shinichi Sunagawa, Patrick Wincker, Matthew B Sullivan, <em>et al<\/em>. Marine DNA macro viral and micro-diversity from pole to pole, <em>Cell Biology,<\/em> published online 25 April 2019. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2019.03.040\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2019.03.040<\/a><\/p>\n","source_link_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2019.03.040"}],"vf_locked":false,"featured":true,"show_featured_image":false,"color":"#007B53","link_color":"#fff","in_this_article":false,"youtube_url":"","mp4_url":"","video_caption":"","press_contact":"None","translations":false},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Arctic Ocean: reservoir of marine viruses | EMBL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Results from the Tara Oceans expedition reveal the importance of the Arctic Ocean as a cradle of viral biodiversity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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