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SUBMITTER: Ruiz Martinez E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10747701 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ruiz Martínez Eliana E Mckeown Dean A DA Schroeder Declan C DC Thuestad Gunnar G Sjøtun Kjersti K Sandaa Ruth-Anne RA Larsen Aud A Hoell Ingunn Alne IA
Viruses 20231128 12
Phaeoviruses (<i>Phycodnaviridae</i>) are large icosahedral viruses in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota with dsDNA genomes ranging from 160 to 560 kb, infecting multicellular brown algae (Phaeophyceae). The phaeoviral host range is broader than expected, not only infecting algae from the Ectocarpales but also from the Laminariales order. However, despite phaeoviral infections being reported globally, Norwegian kelp species have not been screened. A molecular analysis of cultured and wild samples of ...[more]