Fig. 1: Overview of sampling and methods used to generate viromes. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Overview of sampling and methods used to generate viromes.

From: Population ecology and biogeochemical implications of ssDNA and dsDNA viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient

Fig. 1

The study site Stordalen Mire (red dot, upper left panel) lies above the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, and spans three natural permafrost thaw stages (palsa, bog, and fen, with images of representative cores shown below; representative photos of cores were taken by Gareth Trubl). Soil cores were collected in July 2016 and 2017, with two depths subsampled for viruses in the 2016 cores and four subsampled in the 2017 cores, for a total of 20 samples for viromes. To achieve the study goals (indicated in green font), best practices in virome recovery, sequencing, and analysis were applied as shown. Illustrations were created or edited by Ryan Goldsberry.

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