Viruses in the sea

@article{Suttle2005VirusesIT, title={Viruses in the sea}, author={C. Suttle}, journal={Nature}, year={2005}, volume={437}, pages={356-361}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4370363} }
  • C. Suttle
  • Published in Nature 15 September 2005
  • Environmental Science, Biology
The understanding of the effect of viruses on global systems and processes continues to unfold, overthrowing the idea that viruses and virus-mediated processes are sidebars to global processes.
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