Morphotypes of virus-like particles in two hydrothermal vent fields on the East Scotia Ridge, Antarctica

• Published in: Bacteriophage
• Main Authors: Millard, Andrew D, Hands-Portman, Ian, Zwirglmaier, Katrin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Landes Bioscience 2014
• Subjects: Brief Report; East Scotia Ridge; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124060; https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.28732

Viruses from extreme environments are still largely unexplored and may harbor unseen genetic potential. Here, we present a first glance at the morphological diversity of virus like particles (VLPs) from an environment that is extreme in more than one respect: two recently discovered hydrothermal ven...