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Three types of viruses that infect marine bacteria.
Viruses, belonging to three morphotypes, that infect the globally abundant marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. As reported in this issue of PLoS Biology, photosynthesis genes are common in the genomes of these viruses. Furthermore, significant genetic exchanges occur between the viruses and their hosts, influencing photosystem evolution (see Chisholm et al.).
Image Credit: Photos by Bin Ni, Peter R. Weigele, and Matthew B. Sullivan
Citation: (2006) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 4(8) August 2006. PLoS Biol 4(8): ev04.i08. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v04.i08
Published: August 29, 2006
Copyright: © 2006 Ni et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Viruses, belonging to three morphotypes, that infect the globally abundant marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. As reported in this issue of PLoS Biology, photosynthesis genes are common in the genomes of these viruses. Furthermore, significant genetic exchanges occur between the viruses and their hosts, influencing photosystem evolution (see Chisholm et al.).
Image Credit: Photos by Bin Ni, Peter R. Weigele, and Matthew B. Sullivan