Viruses manipulate the marine environment

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7244, 2009, Pages 207-212

  Rohwer, Forest ^a   Thurber, Rebecca Vega ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; VIRUS;

APOPTOSIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; CARBON METABOLISM; COCCOLITH; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTE; FOOD WEB; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIOLOGY; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VIRUSES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 66149151286     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08060     Document Type: Review

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