Geobiology vs Geovirology (2)
(click to enlarge)Earlier today, Semour ‘Sy’ Garte wrote:
“I generally don’t like it when people talk about books they haven’t read, and inevitably get everything wrong. But I REALLY don’t like it when the book is mine. OTOH, your ignorance of the Templeton Foundation (and me) is just as deep, so I guess I shouldn’t be that upset.”
That upset me because energy-dependent gene flow in all ecosystems is biophysically constrained by the physiology of reproduction. That fact tends to be ignored by theorists whose works are supported by the Templeton Foundation, and others who also ignore the biophysical constraints on behaviors across kingdoms.
See for comparison: Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology (2001)
…the biological basis for the development of physical attraction based on chemical signals is well detailed.
Comparative approaches in evolutionary psychology: molecular neuroscience meets the mind (2002)
Claims regarding evolved, uniquely human, psychological constructs should be constrained by the rigorous evidentiary standards that are routine in other sciences.
Instead of evidence-based constraints that link global biogeochemical cycles of light-activated protein synthesis and degradation, we got more pseudosceintific nonsense, and this book by Sy Garte.
The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith 11/19/19 For comparison to Garte’s nonsense about theistic evolution and Christian apologetics, see: Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry II Posters (2019)
B51F-2303 Applying classic and modern techniques to characterize viruses in soils
…this work will improve our understanding of microbial metabolic flexibility, virus ecology, and how microbial processes affect the fate of organic carbon in soil systems.
B51F-2304 Contrasting virus-host interactions at different soil depths
…the results suggest that the viral community structure and life strategies are linked to microbial host cell composition and function in soil.
B51F-2305 Could viral-encoded CAZymes play a role in the global carbon cycle?
By using environmental sequences and viral isolates with known host pairs, we are able to resolve the ecological context of viral-encoded CAZymes in the oceans, soils, and the human gut.
These data suggest that cyanobacterial lysis and productivity are impacted mostly by a combination of both seasonally re-occurring and sporadically successful phage. These results indicate that the complex co-evolutionary arms race of viruses and hosts is influenced by both recurrent and stochastic processes. This in turn may have important implications for informing models of virus-host dynamics.
B51F-2307 Evidence for Rhizosphere Impacts on Viral Communities in Agricultural Soils
Soil and rhizosphere microorganisms are recognized as key contributors to carbon and nutrient cycling and plant productivity, and recent work suggests that viruses also have significant impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.
Indeed, in the case of higher animals we know the kind of orderliness they feed upon well enough, viz. the extremely well-ordered state of matter in more or less complicated organic compounds, which serve them as foodstuffs. After utilizing it they return it in a very much degraded form -not entirely degraded, however, for plants can still make use of it. (These, of course, have their most power supply of ‘negative entropy’ the sunlight.) (1944)
B51F-2308 Improved Soil Virus Quantification and Genome Recovery
…improved methods are enabling more comprehensive investigations of soil viral community diversity, virus-host interactions, and the role of viruses in terrestrial biogeochemical cycling.
…we describe a project to determine the seasonal variability of phage/host biodiversity and proportion of lytic and lysogenic viral reproductive cycles…
Comparison of the virus genomes to prokaryotic MAGs (metagenome assembled genomes) revealed that five of the virus genomes were detected as integrated prophage within prokaryotic MAGs, suggesting the potential for virus-host interactions (such as lateral gene transfer) to occur in the subseafloor. Lysogeny may also be an important survival mechanism for viruses in deeply buried, low energy environments. The development of these new methods may shed some light on the nature of viral infection under the extreme conditions of nutrient and energy limitation in the deep subsurface.
Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor (2016)
B51F-2311 Relationships Among Climate and Geochemical Drivers with Viral and Microbial Community Composition of Northern Poor Fen Peatlands
…viral mechanisms can influence and mediate greenhouse gas production in carbon rich environments…
B51F-2312 Temporal Changes of Viral-Like Particle Abundance in Oklahoma Cropland and Prairie Soils
Viruses are recognized for their roles in biogeochemical nutrient cycling, horizontal gene transfer, and influence on microbial diversity.
B51F-2313 The Influence of Long-term Agricultural Management on Soil Bacterial and Viral Diversity
The soil bacterial community is a critical component for ecosystem stability and function. Viruses have great potential to regulate abundance and diversity of bacterial communities through infection.
…viral diversity, ecology, and impacts on biogeochemical cycling are poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems.
Conclusion: Our ongoing work seeks to leverage peat metagenomes from the SPRUCE experiment, in combination with our transect viromes, to evaluate virus-host dynamics in response to soil warming and increased atmospheric CO2.
Did soil warming just become climate warming for use in the context of increased atmospheric CO2?
See for comparison:Â Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean (2015) and the weekend resurrection of the bacterial flagellum in P. fluorescens, reported as:
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