Viruses are the most common biological agents in the sea, typically numbering ten billion
per litre. They probably infect all organisms, can undergo rapid decay and replenishment …

The discovery that viruses may be the most abundant organisms in natural waters,
surpassing the number of bacteria by an order of magnitude, has inspired a resurgence of …

The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

Microbial sulfur metabolism contributes to biogeochemical cycling on global scales. Sulfur
metabolizing microbes are infected by phages that can encode auxiliary metabolic genes …

Sea-surface warming, sea-ice melting and related freshening, changes in circulation and
mixing regimes, and ocean acidification induced by the present climate changes are …

This unique textbook takes a broad look at the rapidly expanding field of freshwater
microbiology. Concentrating on the interactions between viruses, bacteria, algae, fungi and …

A variety of approaches including enumeration of visibly infected microbes, removal of viral
particles, decay of viral infectivity, and measurements of viral production rates have been …

Marine microorganisms constitute the largest percentage of living biomass and serve as the
major driving force behind nutrient and energy cycles. While viruses only comprise a small …

Mesocosms filled with 80 liters of coastal seawater from Santa Monica, California, were used
twice (June and November) to budget bacterial production and loss, as well as to assess the …

Background The numerically most abundant biological entities on Earth are viruses. Vast
populations prey on the cellular microbiota in all habitats, including the human gut. Main …