Are we missing half of the viruses in the ocean?

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 672-679

  Steward, Grieg F ^a   Culley, Alexander I ^a   Mueller, Jaclyn A ^a   Wood Charlson, Elisha M ^a,c   Belcaid, Mahdi ^b   Poisson, Guylaine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

abundance; DNA viruses; marine; metagenome; RNA viruses; seawater; virioplankton

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; NUCLEIC ACID; PLANKTON; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAWATER; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA VIRUS; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

EUKARYOTA; GENOME, VIRAL; RNA VIRUSES; SEAWATER; VIRION; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; PICORNA; PROTISTA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84876490711     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.121     Document Type: Article

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