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Airborne transmission of viral communities in Sub-Antarctic South Georgia

Bertin Technologies
22 Sept 2026

This application note explores the use of Coriolis Micro and Coriolis Compact air sampling technologies to investigate the diversity and spatiotemporal distribution of airborne viral communities in the sub-Antarctic environment of South Georgia. Discover how researchers combined air and rain sampling with metagenomic sequencing to characterize viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) and assess long-range atmospheric viral transport. Plus, learn how the Coriolis Micro demonstrated superior performance for viral recovery, supporting environmental virology research in remote and challenging ecosystems.

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Resource type: Application note

Page count: 4

Read time: 6 mins

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