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Seasonal And Diel Abundance Of Viruses And Occurrence Of Lysogeny/Bacteriocinogeny In The Marine Environment, Sunny C. Jiang, John H Paul
Seasonal And Diel Abundance Of Viruses And Occurrence Of Lysogeny/Bacteriocinogeny In The Marine Environment, Sunny C. Jiang, John H Paul
Marine Science Faculty Publications
To understand the role of viruses in the marine environment, it is important to know the factors affecting their temporal distribution and the abundance of lysogens. We therefore performed a seasonal and a diel study on viral distribution in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, and detected the abundance of lysogens and bacteriocinogens amongst marine bacterial isolates from diverse marine environments. We investigated the distribution of viruses, bacterial direct counts, chlorophyll a (chl a), salinity and temperature during a 13 mo period in the Tampa Bay estuary. The results indicated that the viral population had a strong seasonal pattern with the highest …