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Tao Wang^1,2, Peiyu Zhang^1,2, Karthik Anantharaman^3,4,5

¹Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.

Nature communications

|August 21, 2025

Resumen

Los factores estresantes ambientales como la carga de nutrientes y pesticidas interrumpen las interacciones entre virus de agua dulce y huésped, alterando la estructura y la función de la comunidad microbiana. Comprender estos efectos mediados por virus es crucial para predecir las respuestas de los ecosistemas al cambio global.

Área de la Ciencia:

Ecología
Microbiología
Ciencias del medio ambiente

Sus antecedentes:

Las interacciones entre virus y huésped son fundamentales para la ecología y la evolución del microbioma.
Las respuestas de estas interacciones a los factores estresantes ambientales bajo el cambio global son poco conocidas.

Objetivo del estudio:

Evaluar los efectos individuales y combinados del calentamiento climático, la carga de nutrientes y la carga de pesticidas en las comunidades virales de ADN y sus interacciones con los huéspedes microbianos en los ecosistemas de lagos de agua dulce poco profundos.

Principales métodos:

Un experimento de mesocosmos al aire libre de 10 meses con un diseño totalmente factorial (ocho tratamientos, seis réplicas).
Secuenciación metagenómica para analizar las unidades taxonómicas operacionales virales (OTU) y los genomas ensamblados por metagenoma procariótico.
Análisis de la diversidad viral alfa y beta, vínculos de depredador y presa, y redes de virus y bacterias entre reinos.

Principales resultados:

La carga combinada de nutrientes y pesticidas redujo sinérgicamente la diversidad alfa viral y alteró la diversidad beta y los vínculos depredador-presa.
Los estresores simplificaron las redes de virus-bacterias entre reinos, con combinaciones de nutrientes y pesticidas que tienen el efecto más fuerte.
Los impactos del calentamiento disminuyeron en presencia de pesticidas, y los cambios impulsados por el estrés afectaron los genes metabólicos auxiliares virales y las vías metabólicas mediadas por virus.

Conclusiones:

La carga de nutrientes y pesticidas interrumpe significativamente las interacciones entre virus y huésped y la estructura de la comunidad microbiana en los ecosistemas de agua dulce.
Comprender el papel regulador de los virus es esencial para abordar los desafíos ecológicos planteados por el cambio global.

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