2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A holistic ecosystemic investigation of marine giruses, virophages and their eukaryotic hosts
| Project/Area Number |
26430184
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Genome biology
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 巨大ウイルス / 海洋ウイルス / 海洋生態系 / メタゲノム |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on a global scale eukaryotic metatranscriptomic data, we revealed that giant viruses actively infect their hosts everywhere at every depth examined. Newly designed PCR primers were used to reveal the existence of over 6,000 genotypes for giant viruses (Megaviridae) in a single water sample collected at Osaka Bay. Developed bioinformatics tools are made publicly accessible through internet (http://www.genome.jp/viptree/, http://www.genome.jp/virushostdb/).
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| Free Research Field |
海洋ウイルス学
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