Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.      

Publications: Marine Viral Ecology

Title Year Journal
Combined pigment and metatranscriptomic analysis reveals highly synchronized diel patterns of phenotypic light response across domains in the open oligotrophic ocean 2021 The ISME Journal
A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances 2021 The ISME Journal
A thermal trade‐off between viral production and degradation drives virus‐phytoplankton population dynamics 2021 Ecology Letters
Linking Light-Dependent Life History Traits with Population Dynamics for Prochlorococcus and Cyanophage 2020 mSystems
An empirical model of carbon flow through marine viruses and microzooplankton grazers 2019 Environmental Microbiology
Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes 2019 Nature Communications
Contrasting Controls on Microzooplankton Grazing and Viral Infection of Microbial Prey 2019 Frontiers in Marine Science
The ecological and biogeochemical state of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is linked to sea surface height 2019 Journal of Marine Research
The Effect of Strain Level Diversity on Robust Inference of Virus-Induced Mortality of Phytoplankton 2018 Frontiers in Microbiology
How microbes survive the open ocean 2017 Science
Disentangling niche competition from grazing mortality in phytoplankton dilution experiments 2017 PloS One
Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances 2016 Nature Microbiology
A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes 2015 The ISME Journal
The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles 2014 Nature Reviews Microbiology
Multi-scale structure and geographic drivers of cross-infection within marine bacteria and phages 2012 The ISME Journal
Functional biogeography of ocean microbes revealed through non-negative matrix factorization 2012 PloS One
Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles 2012 F1000 Biology Reports
A neutral metapopulation model of biodiversity in river networks 2007 Journal of Theoretical Biology

The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

310 Ferst Dr
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

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