Metagenomics for long-term fertilization.
We integrated data from a 34-year long-term fertilization experiment, virus transplantation microcosms, and a global metagenomic dataset to propose the virus-mediated microbial pump (VMP) as a conceptual framework that illustrates how soil viruses regulate carbon and nutrient dynamics by balancing the viral entombing effect (VEE) and the viral priming effect (VPE).