Expanding the Marine Virosphere Using Metagenomics

Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity. They play a critical role in the biology of their hosts and in ecosystem functioning at large. The classical approaches studying phages require is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mizuno, Carolina Megumi, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco, Kimes, Nikole E., Ghai, Rohit
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861242/