Pan Zhou

Soil Protists Consume Viruses to Drive Microbial Nutrient Cycling: Overlooked Trophic Pathways in Soil Food Web

Soil viruses are traditional top-down regulators that redistribute organic matter through host lysis and the viral shunt, implicitly positioning them as terminal sinks rather than active trophic components. Here, we show, for the first time, that soil viruses can also be direct prey for protists, establishing an over...