Viral-mediated lysis of microbes and carbon release in the sub-Antarctic and polar frontal zones of the Australian Southern Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2924-2934

  Evans, Claire ^a   Pearce, Imojen ^b   Brussaard, Corina P D ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOMASS; CARBON; GEOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; TASMANIA; VIRAL LOAD; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70350450726     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02050.x     Document Type: Article

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