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Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Oct 2002
Breitbart Mya, Salamon Peter, Andresen Bjarne, Mahaffy Joseph M, Segall Anca M, Mead David, Azam Farooq, Rohwer Forest
Abstract excerpt
Viruses are the most common biological entities in the oceans by an order of magnitude. However, very little is known about their diversity. Here we report a genomic analysis of two uncultured marine viral communities. Over 65% of the sequences were not significantly similar to previously reported sequences, suggesting that much of the diversity is previously uncharacterized. The most common significant hits...
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