Infectious titers of Emiliania huxleyi virus 86 are reduced by exposure to millimolar dimethyl sulfide and acrylic acid

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2468-2471

  Evans, Claire ^a,c   Malin, Gillian ^a   Wilson, William H ^b,c   Liss, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLSULFIDE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; INFECTIVITY; VIRUS;

ALGAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI VIRUS 86;

EID: 33749491388     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2468     Document Type: Article

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