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Are we missing half of the viruses in the ocean?

Viruses are abundant in the ocean and a major driving force in plankton ecology and evolution. It has been assumed that most of the viruses in seawater contain DNA and infect bacteria, but RNA-containing viruses in the ocean, which almost exclusively infect eukaryotes, have never been quantified. We...

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Autores principales: Steward, Grieg F, Culley, Alexander I, Mueller, Jaclyn A, Wood-Charlson, Elisha M, Belcaid, Mahdi, Poisson, Guylaine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3578568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.121