@article {castillo_seasonal_2021,
	title = {Seasonal dynamics of natural Ostreococcus viral infection at the single cell level using VirusFISH},
	journal = {Environmental Microbiology},
	volume = {n/a},
	number = {n/a},
	year = {2021},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1462-2920.15504},
	abstract = {Ostreococcus is a cosmopolitan marine genus of phytoplankton found in mesotrophic and oligotrophic waters, and the smallest free-living eukaryotes known to date, with a cell diameter close to 1 μm. Ostreococcus has been extensively studied as a model system to investigate viral{\textendash}host dynamics in culture, yet the impact of viruses in naturally occurring populations is largely unknown. Here, we used Virus Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (VirusFISH) to visualize and quantify viral-host dynamics in natural populations of Ostreococcus during a seasonal cycle in the central Cantabrian Sea (Southern Bay of Biscay). Ostreococcus were predominantly found during summer and autumn at surface and 50 m depth, in coastal, mid-shelf and shelf waters, representing up to 21\% of the picoeukaryotic communities. Viral infection was only detected in surface waters, and its impact was variable but highest from May to July and November to December, when up to half of the population was infected. Metatranscriptomic data available from the mid-shelf station unveiled that the Ostreococcus population was dominated by the species O. lucimarinus. This work represents a proof of concept that the VirusFISH technique can be used to quantify the impact of viruses on targeted populations of key microbes from complex natural communities. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {RCC2590, RCC4221, RCC809},
	issn = {1462-2920},
	doi = {10.1111/1462-2920.15504},
	url = {http://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.15504},
	author = {Castillo, Yaiza M. and Forn, Irene and Yau, Sheree and Mor{\'a}n, Xos{\'e} Anxelu G. and Alonso-S{\'a}ez, Laura and Arandia-Gorostidi, N{\'e}stor and Vaqu{\'e}, Dolors and Sebasti{\'a}n, Marta}
}
@article {Castillo2020,
	title = {Visualization of viral infection dynamics in a unicellular eukaryote and quantification of viral production using virus fluorescence in situ hybridization},
	journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2020},
	note = {Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A. tex.mendeley-tags: RCC4221},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {1559},
	abstract = {One of the major challenges in viral ecology is to assess the impact of viruses in controlling the abundance of specific hosts in the environment. To this end, techniques that enable the detection and quantification of virus-host interactions at the single-cell level are essential. With this goal in mind, we implemented virus fluorescence in situ hybridization (VirusFISH) using as a model the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus tauri and its virus Ostreococcus tauri virus 5 (OtV5). VirusFISH allowed the visualization and quantification of the proportion of infected cells during an infection cycle in experimental conditions. We were also able to quantify the abundance of free viruses released during cell lysis, discriminating OtV5 from other mid-level fluorescence phages in our non-axenic infected culture that were not easily distinguishable with flow cytometry. Our results showed that although the major lysis of the culture occurred between 24 and 48 h after OtV5 inoculation, some new viruses were already produced between 8 and 24 h. With this work, we demonstrate that VirusFISH is a promising technique to study specific virus-host interactions in non-axenic cultures and establish a framework for its application in complex natural communities.},
	keywords = {culture system, marine picoeukaryote, Ostreococcus tauri, Ostreococcus tauri virus 5, RCC4221, virus fluorescence in situ hybridization, virus-host interactions},
	issn = {1664-302X},
	doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2020.01559},
	url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01559/full},
	author = {Castillo, Yaiza M. and Sebasti{\'a}n, Marta and Forn, Irene and Grimsley, Nigel and Yau, Sheree and Moraru, Cristina and Vaqu{\'e}, Dolors}
}
@article {Sanchez2019,
	title = {Simplified transformation of ostreococcus tauri using polyethylene glycol},
	journal = {Genes},
	volume = {10},
	number = {5},
	year = {2019},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC4221},
	month = {may},
	pages = {399},
	abstract = {Ostreococcustauri is an easily cultured representative of unicellular algae (class Mamiellophyceae) that abound in oceans worldwide. Eight complete 13{\textendash}22 Mb genomes of phylogenetically divergent species within this class are available, and their DNA sequences are nearly always present in metagenomic data produced from marine samples. Here we describe a simplified and robust transformation protocol for the smallest of these algae (O. tauri). Polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatment was much more efficient than the previously described electroporation protocol. Short (2 min or less) incubation times in PEG gave {\textquestiondown}104 transformants per microgram DNA. The time of cell recovery after transformation could be reduced to a few hours, permitting the experiment to be done in a day rather than overnight as used in previous protocols. DNA was randomly inserted in the O. tauri genome. In our hands PEG was 20{\textendash}40-fold more efficient than electroporation for the transformation of O. tauri, and this improvement will facilitate mutagenesis of all of the dispensable genes present in the tiny O. tauri genome.},
	keywords = {bioluminescence, Chlorophyta, Ecosystem, Gene Expression, luciferase, mamiellophyceae, Ostreococcus, picoeukaryote, plankton, Prasinophyte, promoter, RCC4221},
	issn = {2073-4425},
	doi = {10.3390/genes10050399},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/5/399},
	author = {Sanchez, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Geffroy, Sol{\`e}ne and Norest, Manon and Yau, Sheree and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Grimsley, Nigel}
}
@article {yau_rapidity_2018,
	title = {Rapidity of Genomic Adaptations to Prasinovirus Infection in a Marine Microalga},
	journal = {Viruses},
	volume = {10},
	number = {8},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Number: 8 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
	pages = {441},
	abstract = {Prasinoviruses are large dsDNA viruses commonly found in aquatic systems worldwide, where they can infect and lyse unicellular prasinophyte algae such as Ostreococcus. Host susceptibility is virus strain-specific, but resistance of susceptible Ostreococcus tauri strains to a virulent virus arises frequently. In clonal resistant lines that re-grow, viruses are usually present for many generations, and genes clustered on chromosome 19 show physical rearrangements and differential expression. Here, we investigated changes occurring during the first two weeks after inoculation of the prasinovirus OtV5. By serial dilutions of cultures at the time of inoculation, we estimated the frequency of resistant cells arising in virus-challenged O. tauri cultures to be 10\&minus;3\&ndash;10\&minus;4 of the inoculated population. Re-growing resistant cells were detectable by flow cytometry 3 days post-inoculation (dpi), visible re-greening of cultures occurred by 6 dpi, and karyotypic changes were visually detectable at 8 dpi. Resistant cell lines showed a modified spectrum of host-virus specificities and much lower levels of OtV5 adsorption.},
	keywords = {adsorption, Chromosome, host range, karyotype, mamiellophyceae, phycodnaviridae, RCC1105, RCC4221, RCC4223, rearrangement, resistance, specificity, \textitOstreococcus tauri},
	doi = {10.3390/v10080441},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/10/8/441},
	author = {Yau, Sheree and Caravello, Ga{\"e}tan and Fonvieille, Nad{\`e}ge and Desgranges, Elodie and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Grimsley, Nigel}
}
@article {Blanc-Mathieu2017,
	title = {Population genomics of picophytoplankton unveils novel chromosome hypervariability},
	journal = {Science Advances},
	volume = {3},
	number = {7},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC1108,RCC1110,RCC1112,RCC1114,RCC1115,RCC1116,RCC1117,RCC1118,RCC1123,RCC1558,RCC1559,RCC1561,RCC299,RCC4221,RCC809},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {e1700239},
	keywords = {RCC1105, RCC1108, RCC1110, RCC1112, RCC1114, RCC1115, RCC1116, RCC1117, RCC1118, RCC1123, RCC1558, RCC1559, RCC1561, RCC299, RCC4221, RCC809},
	issn = {2375-2548},
	doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1700239},
	url = {http://advances.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700239},
	author = {Blanc-Mathieu, Romain and Krasovec, Marc and Hebrard, Maxime and Yau, Sheree and Desgranges, Elodie and Martin, Joel and Schackwitz, Wendy and Kuo, Alan and Salin, Gerald and Donnadieu, Cecile and Desdevises, Yves and Sanchez-Ferandin, Sophie and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Rivals, Eric and Grigoriev, Igor V. and Grimsley, Nigel and Eyre-Walker, Adam and Piganeau, Gwenael}
}
@article {Derelle2017,
	title = {Prasinovirus attack of ostreococcus is furtive by day but savage by night},
	journal = {Journal of Virology},
	volume = {92},
	number = {4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC4221},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {JVI.01703{\textendash}17},
	abstract = {Prasinoviruses are large DNA viruses that infect diverse genera of green microalgae worldwide in aquatic ecosystems, but molecular knowledge of their life-cycles is lacking. Several complete genomes of both these viruses and their marine algal hosts are now available and have been used to show the pervasive presence of these species in microbial metagenomes. We have analysed the life-cycle of OtV5, a lytic virus, using RNA-Seq from 12 time points of healthy or infected Ostreococcus tauri cells over a day/night cycle in culture. In the day, viral gene transcription remained low while host nitrogen metabolism gene transcription was initially strongly repressed for two successive time points before being induced for 8 hours, but in the night viral transcription increased steeply while host nitrogen metabolism genes were repressed and many host functions that are normally reduced in the night appeared to be compensated either by genes expressed from the virus or by increased expression of a subset of 4.4 \% of the host{\textquoteright}s genes. Some host cells lysed progressively during the night, but a larger proportion lysed the following morning. Our data suggest that the life-cycles of algal viruses mirror the diurnal rhythms of their hosts.},
	keywords = {accepted 9, mamiellophyceae, ncldv, Ostreococcus, phycodnaviridae, prasinophytes, RCC4221, received 28 september 2017},
	issn = {0022-538X},
	doi = {10.1128/JVI.01703-17},
	url = {http://jvi.asm.org/lookup/doi/10.1128/JVI.01703-17},
	author = {Derelle, Evelyne and Yau, Sheree and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Grimsley, Nigel H.}
}
@article {Yau2016,
	title = {A viral immunity chromosome in the marine picoeukaryote, ostreococcus tauri},
	journal = {PLOS Pathogens},
	volume = {12},
	number = {10},
	year = {2016},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: 2016,RCC299,RCC4221,RCC809},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {e1005965},
	keywords = {2016, RCC299, RCC4221, RCC809},
	issn = {1553-7374},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.ppat.1005965},
	url = {http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005965},
	author = {Yau, Sheree and Hemon, Claire and Derelle, Evelyne and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Piganeau, Gwenael and Grimsley, Nigel},
	editor = {Ding, Shou-Wei}
}
