The elemental composition of virus particles: Implications for marine biogeochemical cycles

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 519-528

  Jover, Luis F ^a   Effler, T Chad ^b   Buchan, Alison ^b   Wilhelm, Steven W ^b   Weitz, Joshua S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CARBON; ELEMENT; NITROGEN; NUCLEIC ACID; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLYSIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST CELL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RESERVOIR; SEA; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOSPHORUS; VIRION; VIRUSES;

EID: 84899474970     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3289     Document Type: Article

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