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SUBMITTER: Perez Sepulveda B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4928673 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perez Sepulveda Blanca B Redgwell Tamsin T Rihtman Branko B Pitt Frances F Scanlan David J DJ Millard Andrew A
FEMS microbiology letters 20160622 15
Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the oceans, the majority of which infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages. Yet, the bulk of bacteriophages form part of the vast uncultured dark matter of the microbial biosphere. In spite of the paucity of cultured marine bacteriophages, it is known that marine bacteriophages have major impacts on microbial population structure and the biogeochemical cycling of key elements. Despite the ecological relevance of marine bacteriophag ...[more]