Nutrients and Other Environmental Factors Influence Virus Abundances across Oxic and Hypoxic Marine Environments

• Published in: Viruses
• Main Authors: Jan F. Finke, Brian P.V. Hunt, Christian Winter, Eddy C. Carmack, Curtis A. Suttle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2017
• Subjects: viral abundance; environmental variables; multivariate model; Akaike Information Criterion; Microbiology; QR1-502; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/v9060152; https://doaj.org/article/144d558594f44c0ab54137e54175f5b4

Virus particles are highly abundant in seawater and, on average, outnumber microbial cells approximately 10-fold at the surface and 16-fold in deeper waters; yet, this relationship varies across environments. Here, we examine the influence of a suite of environmental variables, including nutrient co...