Active and diverse viruses persist in the deep sub-seafloor sediments over thousands of years

Viruses are ubiquitous and cause significant mortality in marine bacterial and archaeal communities. Little is known about the role of viruses in the sub-seafloor biosphere, which hosts a large fraction of all microbes on Earth. We quantified and characterized viruses in sediments from the Baltic Se...

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Published in:	The ISME Journal Vol. 13; no. 7; pp. 1857 - 1864
Main Authors:	Cai, Lanlan, Jørgensen, Bo B., Suttle, Curtis A., He, Maoqiu, Cragg, Barry A., Jiao, Nianzhi, Zhang, Rui
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2019 Oxford University Press
Subjects:	14/34 14/63 38/23 38/77 631/158/670 704/158/855 Archaea - virology Bacteria - virology Biomedical and Life Sciences Biosphere Chemical analysis Communities Ecology Evolutionary Biology Geologic Sediments - microbiology Harbors Life Sciences Marine sediments Measuring instruments Microbial Ecology Microbial Genetics and Genomics Microbiology Microbiota Microorganisms Ocean floor Oceans and Seas Seawater Seawater - microbiology Sediments Transmission electron microscopy Viral infections Viruses Viruses - isolation & purification Water analysis Baltic Sea
ISSN:	1751-7362, 1751-7370, 1751-7370
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