Viral Diversity and Its Relationship With Environmental Factors at the Surface and Deep Sea of Prydz Bay, Antarctica

A viral metagenomic analysis of five surface and two bottom water (878 meters below surface, mbs, and 3,357 mbs) samples from Prydz Bay, was conducted during February–March 2015. The results demonstrated that most of the DNA viruses were dsDNA viruses (79.73–94.06%, except at PBI1, 37.51%). Of these...

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Main Authors: Zheng Gong, Yantao Liang, Min Wang, Yong Jiang, Qingwei Yang, Jun Xia, Xinhao Zhou, Siyuan You, Chen Gao, Jian Wang, Jianfeng He, Hongbing Shao, Andrew McMinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02981/full