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Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe by Gareth Trubl; Kenneth M. Stedman; Kathryn F. Bywaters; Emily E. Matula; Pacifica Sommers; Simon Roux; Nancy Merino; John Yin; Jason T. Kaelber; Aram Avila-Herrera; Peter Anto Johnson; John Christy Johnson; Schuyler Borges; Peter K. Weber; Jennifer Pett-Ridge; Penelope J. Boston is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe about?
Viruses are the most numerically abundant biological entities on Earth. As ubiquitous replicators of molecular information and agents of community change, viruses have potent effects on the life on Earth, and may play a critical role in human spaceflight, for life-detection missions to other planetary bodies and planetary protection. However, major knowledge gaps constrain our understanding of the Earth’s virosphere: (1) the role viruses play in biogeochemical cycles, (2) the origin(s) of viruses and (3) the involvement of viruses in the evolution, distribution and persistence of life. As viruses are the only replicators that span all known types of nucleic acids, an expanded experimental and theoretical toolbox built for Earth’s viruses will be pivotal for detecting and understanding life on Earth and beyond. Only by filling in these knowledge and technical gaps we will obtain an inclusive assessment of how to distinguish and detect life on other planetary surfaces. Meanwhile, space exploration requires life-support systems for the needs of humans, plants and their microbial inhabitants. Viral effects on microbes and plants are essential for Earth’s biosphere and human health, but
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- Author
- Gareth Trubl; Kenneth M. Stedman; Kathryn F. Bywaters; Emily E. Matula; Pacifica Sommers; Simon Roux; Nancy Merino; John Yin; Jason T. Kaelber; Aram Avila-Herrera; Peter Anto Johnson; John Christy Johnson; Schuyler Borges; Peter K. Weber; Jennifer Pett-Ridge; Penelope J. Boston
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)