Wonderful essay by @vincentflora and Assaf Vardi on viruses in the ocean
Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales
"Aquatic virology tackles some of the most challenging questions in microbial ecology and oceanography, trying to understand how microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye can influence large-scale processes, such as biogeochemical cycles, or affect entire marine food webs."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001966
#viruses #virology #ocean #marine
Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales
"Aquatic virology tackles some of the most challenging questions in microbial ecology and oceanography, trying to understand how microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye can influence large-scale processes, such as biogeochemical cycles, or affect entire marine food webs."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001966
#viruses #virology #ocean #marine
Viral infection in the ocean—A journey across scales
Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the ocean. This Essay journeys across several orders of magnitude of biological organization, time, and space, to investigate interactions between hosts and viruses in the ocean and their relevance f…journals.plos.org