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Culturing novel and abundant pelagiphages in the ocean.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2021
Zhang Zefeng, Qin Fang, Chen Feng, Chu Xiao, Luo Haiwei, Zhang Rui, Du Sen, Tian Zhen, Zhao Yanlin
Abstract excerpt
Viruses play a key role in biogeochemical cycling and host mortality, metabolism, physiology and evolution in the ocean. Viruses that infect the globally abundant SAR11 bacteria (pelagiphages) were reported to be an important component of the marine viral communities. Our current knowledge of pelagiphages is based on a few studies and therefore is limited. In this study, 10 new pelagiphages were isolated and...
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