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Investigating The Diversity Of Single-Stranded Dna Bacteriophages In Marine Environments, Max Stephen Hopkins
Investigating The Diversity Of Single-Stranded Dna Bacteriophages In Marine Environments, Max Stephen Hopkins
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There are estimated to be 1030 virus-like particles in the world's oceans. Most are viruses that infect bacteria, called `bacteriophages' or simply `phages'. Phages exert tremendous influence on marine biogeochemical cycling because they are responsible for about half of all bacterial death in the oceans, causing nutrient release into the dissolved and particulate organic matter pools. Traditional paradigms of phage biology held that most of these ocean phages belonged to the Caudovirales group: phages that contain a double-stranded DNA genome within a geometric capsid `head' to which a `tail' is joined, in one of several morphological variants, that is the …