Profiles
Professor Willie Wilson
Professor of Marine Virology
School of Biological and Marine Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Publications
Publications
Key publications
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Journals
Articles
(2024) 'Structure and replication cycle of a virus infecting climate-modulating alga
<i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>' Science Advances 10, (15) Publisher Site , DOI
(2023) 'Cryptic bacterial pathogens of diatoms peak during senescence of a winter diatom bloom' New Phytologist , DOI Open access
(2023) 'MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads' BMC Bioinformatics 24, (1) , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Diversity, duplication, and genomic organization of homeobox genes in Lepidoptera' Genome Research 33, (1) 32-44 , DOI Open access
(2022) '“Boom‐and‐busted‐dynamics” of phytoplankton‐virus interactions explain the paradox of the plankton' New Phytologist , DOI Open access
(2021) 'A new family of “megaphages” abundant in the marine environment' ISME Communications 1, (1) , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Testing Bergmann's rule in marine copepods' Ecography 44, (9) 1283-1295 Publisher Site , DOI
(2021) 'Aquatic reservoir of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> in an African Great Lake assessed by large scale plankton sampling and ultrasensitive molecular methods' ISME Communications 1, (1) Publisher Site , DOI
(2021) 'Modelling the Effects of Traits and Abiotic Factors on Viral Lysis in Phytoplankton' Frontiers in Marine Science 8, , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Aquatic virus culture collection: an absent (but necessary) safety net for environmental microbiologists' Applied Phycology 3, (1) 211-225 Publisher Site , DOI
(2019) 'A Global Plankton Diversity Monitoring Program' Frontiers in Marine Science 6, , DOI Open access
(2018) 'ddPCR applied on archived Continuous Plankton Recorder samples reveals long‐term occurrence of class 1 integrons and a sulphonamide resistance gene in marine plankton communities' Environmental Microbiology Reports 10, (4) 458-464 Publisher Site , DOI
(2017) 'Author Correction: Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances' Nature Microbiology 2, (11) 1571-1571 Publisher Site , DOI
(2017) 'Exploratory analysis of <i>Symbiodinium</i> transcriptomes reveals potential latent infection by large dsDNA viruses' Environmental Microbiology 19, (10) 3909-3919 Publisher Site , DOI
(2017) 'Genomic exploration of individual giant ocean viruses' The ISME Journal 11, (8) 1736-1745 , DOI
(2017) 'Marine Prasinoviruses and Their Tiny Plankton Hosts: A Review' Viruses 9, (3) 43-43 Publisher Site , DOI
(2017) 'Functional dynamics of Emiliania huxleyi virus-host interactions across multiple spatial scales' Limnology and Oceanography 62, (3) 922-933 , DOI
(2017) 'Drivers of interannual variability in virioplankton abundance at the coastal western Antarctic peninsula and the potential effects of climate change' Environmental Microbiology 19, (2) 740-755 , DOI
(2016) 'How Biobanks Are Assessing and Measuring Their Financial Sustainability' Biopreservation and Biobanking 15, (1) 65-71 Publisher Site , DOI
(2016) 'Virus infection of Emiliania huxleyi deters grazing by the copepod Acartia tonsa' Journal of Plankton Research 38, (5) 1194-1205 , DOI
(2016) 'Differential gene expression is tied to photochemical efficiency reduction in virally infected Emiliania huxleyi' Marine Ecology Progress Series 555, 13-27 Publisher Site , DOI
(2016) 'Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances' Nature Microbiology 1, (3) 0-0 , DOI
(2015) 'Influence of local environmental variables on the viral consortia associated with the coral Montipora capitata from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, USA' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 74, (3) 251-262 Publisher Site , DOI
(2015) 'A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes' The ISME Journal 9, (6) 1352-1364 , DOI
(2014) 'Latent virus‐like infections are present in a diverse range of <i><scp>S</scp>ymbiodinium</i> spp. (Dinophyta)' Journal of Phycology 50, (6) 984-997 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Porites white patch syndrome: associated viruses and disease physiology' Coral Reefs 34, (1) 249-257 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Development of DNA mismatch repair gene, MutS, as a diagnostic marker for detection and phylogenetic analysis of algal Megaviruses' Virology 466-467, 123-128 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Genome of brown tide virus (AaV), the little giant of the Megaviridae, elucidates NCLDV genome expansion and host–virus coevolution' Virology 466-467, 60-70 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing' PLoS Biology 12, (6) e1001889-e1001889 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Dip in the gene pool: Metagenomic survey of natural coccolithovirus communities' Virology 466-467, 129-137 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Genome Sequences of Two Temperate Phages, ΦCB2047-A and ΦCB2047-C, Infecting
<i>Sulfitobacter</i>
sp. Strain 2047' Genome Announcements 2, (3) Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Quantification of virus-like particles suggests viral infection in corals affected by Porites tissue loss' Coral Reefs 33, (3) 687-691 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Genome Sequence of the
<i>Sulfitobacter</i>
sp. Strain 2047-Infecting Lytic Phage ΦCB2047-B' Genome Announcements 2, (1) Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Reduction in photosystem II efficiency during a virus-controlled Emiliania huxleyi bloom' Marine Ecology Progress Series 495, 65-76 Publisher Site , DOI
(2014) 'Genome sequence of the Sulfitobacter sp. strain 2047-infecting lytic phage ΦCB2047-B' Genome Announcements 2, (1) , DOI
(2013) 'Marine viruses, a genetic reservoir revealed by targeted viromics' The ISME Journal 8, (5) 1079-1088 , DOI
(2013) 'Functional and structural characterisation of a viral cytochrome <i>b</i>5' FEBS Letters 587, (22) 3633-3639 Publisher Site , DOI
(2013) 'Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution' Nature 499, (7457) 209-213 Publisher Site , DOI
(2012) 'Dynamics and genotypic composition of Emiliania huxleyi and their co-occurring viruses during a coccolithophore bloom in the North Sea' FEMS Microbiology Ecology 81, (2) 315-323 Publisher Site , DOI
(2012) 'NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARINE ALGAE AND MICROBIOTA (FORMERLY CCMP): RENAMING THE NATION'S “LIVING LIBRARY” OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON' Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 21, (1) 2-4 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'DISSECTING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO PHOSPHORUS STRESS IN MARINE <i>SYNECHOCOCCUS</i> ISOLATES (CYANOPHYCEAE)<sup>1</sup>' Journal of Phycology 48, (1) 94-105 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Unveiling the transcriptional features associated with coccolithovirus infection of natural Emiliania huxleyi blooms' FEMS Microbiology Ecology 78, (3) 555-564 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Targeted Sorting of Single Virus-Infected Cells of the Coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi' PLoS ONE 6, (7) e22520-e22520 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Planktonic Microbes in the Gulf of Maine Area' PLoS ONE 6, (6) e20981-e20981 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Organismal Interactions in Uncultivated Marine Protists' Science 332, (6030) 714-717 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Application of the major capsid protein as a marker of the phylogenetic diversity of Emiliania huxleyi viruses' FEMS Microbiology Ecology 76, (2) 373-380 Publisher Site , DOI
(2011) 'Genome Sequence of Ostreococcus tauri Virus OtV-2 Throws Light on the Role of Picoeukaryote Niche Separation in the Ocean' Journal of Virology 85, (9) 4520-4529 Publisher Site , DOI
(2010) 'Survival of the fattest' Planet Earth (SPRING) 14-15
(2010) 'Transcriptional host–virus interaction of<i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>(Haptophyceae) and EhV-86 deduced from combined analysis of expressed sequence tags and microarrays' European Journal of Phycology 45, (1) 1-12 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Giving microbial diversity a home' Nature Reviews Microbiology 7, (11) 758-758 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'From small hosts come big viruses: the complete genome of a second <i>Ostreococcus tauri</i> virus, OtV‐1' Environmental Microbiology 11, (11) 2821-2839 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Host–virus shift of the sphingolipid pathway along an <i>Emiliania huxleyi</i> bloom: survival of the fattest' Environmental Microbiology 11, (11) 2840-2848 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'A unicellular algal virus, Emiliania huxleyi virus 86, exploits an animal-like infection strategy' Journal of General Virology 90, (9) 2306-2316 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Changes in Emiliania huxleyi fatty acid profiles during infection with E. huxleyi virus 86: physiological and ecological implications' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 55, (3) 219-228 Publisher Site , DOI
(2008) 'The “Cheshire Cat” escape strategy of the coccolithophore<i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>in response to viral infection' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, (41) 15944-15949 Publisher Site , DOI
(2008) 'Preferential grazing of Oxyrrhis marina on virus infected Emiliania huxleyi' Limnology and Oceanography 53, (5) 2035-2040 Publisher Site , DOI
(2008) 'Aquatic virus diversity accessed through omic techniques: A route map to function' Current Opinion in Microbiology 11, (3) 226-232 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Microbial dynamics during the decline of a spring diatom bloom in the Northeast Atlantic' Journal of Plankton Research 30, (3) 261-273 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Modified dilution technique to estimate viral versus grazing mortality of phytoplankton: limitations associated with method sensitivity in natural waters' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 49, 207-222 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Pilot study of an EST approach of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi during a virus infection' Gene 406, (1-2) 209-216 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Detection of virus mRNA within infected host cells using an isothermal nucleic acid amplification assay: marine cyanophage gene expression within Synechococcus sp' Virology Journal 4, (1) Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'The response of carotenoids and chlorophylls during virus infection of Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae)' Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 344, (1) 101-112 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'The relative significance of viral lysis and microzooplankton grazing as pathways of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) cleavage: An <i>Emiliania huxleyi</i> culture study' Limnology and Oceanography 52, (3) 1036-1045 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Use of microarrays to assess viral diversity: from genotype to phenotype' Environmental Microbiology 9, (4) 971-982 Publisher Site , DOI
(2007) 'Characterization of a latent virus-like infection of symbiotic zooxanthellae' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73, (9) 2976-2981
(2006) 'High resolution genetic diversity studies of marine Synechococcus isolates using rpoC1-based restriction fragment length polymorphism' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 45, 263-275 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Molecular Dynamics of
<i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>
and Cooccurring Viruses during Two Separate Mesocosm Studies' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73, (2) 554-562 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Expression of a Novel Marine Viral Single-chain Serine Palmitoyltransferase and Construction of Yeast and Mammalian Single-chain Chimera' Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, (52) 39935-39942 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'VIRAL INFECTION OF <i>EMILIANIA HUXLEYI</i> (PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE) LEADS TO ELEVATED PRODUCTION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES<sup>1</sup>' Journal of Phycology 42, (5) 1040-1047 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Infectious titres of <i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>
virus 86 are reduced by exposure to millimolar dimethyl sulfide and acrylic acid' Limnology and Oceanography 51, (5) 2468-2471 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Identification of a Diagnostic Marker To Detect Freshwater Cyanophages of Filamentous Cyanobacteria' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72, (9) 5713-5719 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Variability in microbial population dynamics between similarly perturbed mesocosms' Journal of Plankton Research 28, (8) 783-791 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Locus-Specific Gene Expression Pattern Suggests a Unique Propagation Strategy for a Giant Algal Virus' Journal of Virology 80, (15) 7699-7705 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Standard Annotation of Environmental OMICS Data: Application to the Transcriptomics Domain' OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology 10, (2) 172-178 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'The coccolithovirus microarray: an array of uses' Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics 5, (4) 273-279 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Phylogenetic analysis of PgV-102P, a new virus from the English Channel that infects <i>Phaeocystis globosa</i>' Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86, (3) 485-490 Publisher Site , DOI
(2006) 'Viruses: agents of coral disease?' Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 69, (1) 101-110
(2005) 'Preliminary characterisation of repeat families in the genome of EhV-86, a giant algal virus that infects the marine microalga Emiliania huxleyi' Archives of Virology 151, (3) 525-535 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'Evolutionary History of the Coccolithoviridae' Molecular Biology and Evolution 23, (1) 86-92 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'Complete Genome Sequence and Lytic Phase Transcription Profile of a
<i>Coccolithovirus</i>' Science 309, (5737) 1090-1092 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'A GENETIC MARKER TO SEPARATE<i>EMILIANIA HUXLEYI</i>(PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE) MORPHOTYPES<sup>1</sup>' Journal of Phycology 41, (4) 874-879 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'The Genome of S-PM2, a “Photosynthetic” T4-Type Bacteriophage That Infects Marine
<i>Synechococcus</i>
Strains' Journal of Bacteriology 187, (9) 3188-3200 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'Genetic diversity of marine <i>Synechococcus</i> and co‐occurring cyanophage communities: evidence for viral control of phytoplankton' Environmental Microbiology 7, (4) 499-508 Publisher Site , DOI
(2005) 'Temporal distribution of viruses, bacteria and phytoplankton throughout the water column in a freshwater hypereutrophic lake' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 39, 211-223 Publisher Site , DOI
(2004) 'An enemy within? Observations of virus-like particles in reef corals' Coral Reefs 24, (1) 145-148 Publisher Site , DOI
(2003) 'Biological factors regulating the chemical speciation of Cu, Zn, and Mn under different nutrient regimes in a marine mesocosm experiment' Limnology and Oceanography 48, (6) 2289-2302 Publisher Site , DOI
(2003) 'Virus Succession Observed during an
<i>Emiliania huxleyi</i>
Bloom' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69, (5) 2484-2490 Publisher Site , DOI
(2003) 'Direct estimates of the contribution of viral lysis and microzooplankton grazing to the decline of a Micromonas spp. population' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 30, 207-219 Publisher Site , DOI
(2002) 'Coccolithovirus (Phycodnaviridae): Characterisation of a new large dsDNA algal virus that infects Emiliana huxleyi' Archives of Virology 147, (9) 1685-1698 Publisher Site , DOI
(2002) 'Isolation of viruses responsible for the demise of an <i>Emiliania huxleyi</i> bloom in the English Channel' Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 82, (3) 369-377 Publisher Site , DOI
(2002) 'Use of Signal-Mediated Amplification of RNA Technology (SMART) to Detect Marine Cyanophage DNA' BioTechniques 32, (3) 604-611 Publisher Site , DOI
(2002) 'Flow cytometric analysis of an Emiliana huxleyi bloom terminated by viral infection' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 27, 111-124 Publisher Site , DOI
(2002) 'Virus dynamics in a coccolithophore-dominated bloom in the North Sea' Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 49, (15) 2951-2963 Publisher Site , DOI
(2001) 'Observation of virus-like particles in thin sections of the plumose anemone, <i>Metridium senile</i>' Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 81, (5) 879-880 Publisher Site , DOI
(2001) 'A conserved genetic module that encodes the major virion components in both the coliphage T4 and the marine cyanophage S-PM2' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, (20) 11411-11416 Publisher Site , DOI
(2001) 'Temperature induction of viruses in symbiotic dinoflagellates' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 25, 99-102 Publisher Site , DOI
(2000) 'Transmission electron microscope analysis of virus-like particles in the freshwater lakes of Signy Island, Antarctica' Polar Biology 23, (9) 657-660 Publisher Site , DOI
(1998) 'Elevated production of dimethylsulfide resulting from viral infection of cultures of <i>Phaeocystis pouchetii</i>' Limnology and Oceanography 43, (6) 1389-1393 Publisher Site , DOI
(1998) 'Occurrence of a Sequence in Marine Cyanophages Similar to That of T4 g20 and Its Application to PCR-Based Detection and Quantification Techniques' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64, (6) 2051-2060 Publisher Site , DOI
(1998) 'Population Dynamics of Phytoplankton and Viruses in a Phosphate-limited Mesocosm and their Effect on DMSP and DMS Production' Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 46, (2) 49-59 Publisher Site , DOI
(1997) 'An immunological approach to detect phosphate stress in populations and single cells of photosynthetic picoplankton' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63, (6) 2411-2420 Publisher Site , DOI
(1997) 'Lysogenic and lytic viral production in marine microbial communities' Aquatic Microbial Ecology 13, 95-100 Publisher Site , DOI
(1996) 'Viral control of Emiliania huxleyi blooms?' Journal of Marine Systems 9, (1-2) 75-81 Publisher Site , DOI
(1996) 'THE EFFECT OF PHOSPHATE STATUS ON THE KINETICS OF CYANOPHAGE INFECTION IN THE OCEANIC CYANOBACTERIUM <i>SYNECHOCOCCUS</i> SP. WH7803<sup>1</sup>' Journal of Phycology 32, (4) 506-516 Publisher Site , DOI
(1993) 'Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Five Marine Cyanophages Propagated on
<i>Synechococcus</i>
sp. Strain WH7803' Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59, (11) 3736-3743 Publisher Site , DOI
(1991) 'Cloning and sequence analysis of the phycocyanin genes of the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH7803' Plant Molecular Biology 17, (4) 931-933 Publisher Site , DOI
Chapters
(2011) 'Coccolithovirus' The Springer Index of Viruses Springer New York 1253-1257 Publisher Site , DOI
(2009) 'Giant viruses and their genomes' Viral Genomes: Diversity, Properties and Parameters 145-157
(2004) 'Observations of a new source of coral mortality along the Kenyan coast' Coelenterate Biology 2003 Springer Netherlands 469-479 Publisher Site , DOI
(1999) 'Application of molecular techniques to addressing the role of P as a key effector in marine ecosystems' Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Communities Springer Netherlands 149-175 Publisher Site , DOI
Conference Papers
(2010) 'Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 19508-19513 Publisher Site , DOI
(2004) 'Observations of a new source of coral mortality along the Kenyan coast' Springer Science and Business Media LLC 469-479 Publisher Site , DOI
(2003) 'Encapsidation of host DNA by bacteriophages infecting marine Synechococcus strains' Oxford University Press (OUP) 349-352 Publisher Site , DOI