title: Advances in understanding archaea-virus interactions in controlled and natural environments.
abstract: Our understanding of host-virus interactions in archaeal systems generally lags behind our knowledge of host-virus interactions in bacterial and eukaryotic systems. This is due to the limited number of archaeal host-virus systems available for study under laboratory conditions, as well as the absence of diseases known to be caused by archaea. However, in recent years there has been a rapid expansion of our understanding of archaeal host-virus interactions combining traditional genetic and biochemical approaches with 'omics' based approaches in both laboratory and natural environmental studies. We highlight here the emerging features of host-virus interactions in archaea with a particular emphasis on host-virus interactions gathered from the study of archaeal viruses from high temperature acidic thermal environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology and Thermal Biology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
authors.forename: Jamie C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000143:Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D001105:Archaea / Q000235:genetics / Q000821:virology*; D023641:Archaeal Viruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology; D004777:Environment; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016679:Genome, Viral; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D045482:Hot Springs / Q000382:microbiology / Q000821:virology; D019065:Virus Assembly; D014776:Virus Cultivation; D014779:Virus Replication; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D000143:Acids