Do phages impact microbial dynamics, prokaryotic community structure and nutrient dynamics in Lake Bourget?

Phages are the most abundant and diversified biological entities in aquatic ecosystems. Understanding their functional role requires laboratory experiments on a short time-scale. Using samples of surface waters of Lake Bourget, we studied whether viruses impact (i) the abundance patterns of the bact...

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Main Authors: Antony Meunier, Stéphan Jacquet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2015-11-01
Series:Biology Open
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Online Access:http://bio.biologists.org/content/4/11/1528