Mixing of different water masses and its effect on prokaryotic and viral communities

• Main Author: Kruspe, Carl Philip
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: (:none) 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hatten; Antarc*; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25365/thesis.23528; https://othes.univie.ac.at/23528/

Viruses are the most abundant biological entity on the planet. In this study, we addressed the question whether mixing of water masses has an impact on prokaryotic and viral community composition, the frequency of virally-infected cells (FIC), and viral production (VP). Therefore prokaryotes from th...