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Marine Phages As Tracers: Effects of Size, Morphology, and Physico-Chemical Surface Properties on Transport in a Porous Medium
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Although several studies examined the transport of viruses in terrestrial systems only few studies exist on the use of marine phages (i.e., nonterrestrial viruses infecting marine host bacteria) as sensitively detectable microbial tracers for subsurface colloid transport and water flow. Here, we systematically quantified and compared for the first time the effects of size, morphology and physicochemical surface properties of six marine phages and two coliphages (MS2, T4) on transport in sand-filled percolated columns. Phage-sand interactions were described by colloidal filtration theory and the extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek approach (XDLVO), respectively. The phages belonged to different families and comprised four phages never used in transport studies (i.e., PSA-HM1, PSA-HP1, PSA-HS2, and H3/49). Phage transport was influenced by size, morphology and hydrophobicity in an approximate order of sizehydrophobicity ≥ morphology. Two phages PSA-HP1, PSA-HS2 (Podoviridae and Siphoviridae) exhibited similar mass recovery as commonly used coliphage MS2 and were 7-fold better transported than known marine phage vB_PSPS-H40/1. Differing properties of the marine phages may be used to trace transport of indigenous viruses, natural colloids or anthropogenic nanomaterials and, hence, contribute to better risk analysis. Our results underpin the potential role of marine phages as microbial tracer for transport of colloidal particles and water flow.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Morphology (linguistics)
Water flow
Surface Properties
viruses
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Microbiology
Siphoviridae
03 medical and health sciences
Colloid
Podoviridae
Marine bacteriophage
Environmental Chemistry
Bacteriophages
Colloids
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Levivirus
biology
General Chemistry
biology.organism_classification
030104 developmental biology
Chemical engineering
Porous medium
Porosity
Bacteria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15205851
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental sciencetechnology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7dea6f2b730bb7321141f8aeca514ea5