Study shows large variability in abundance of viruses that infect ocean microorganisms
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 11:18
in Biology & Nature
Viruses infect more than humans or plants. For microorganisms in the oceans—including those that capture half of the carbon taken out of the atmosphere every day—viruses are a major threat. But a paper to be published Jan. 25, 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there's much less certainty about the size of these viral populations than scientists had long believed.