Minireview: The role of viruses in marine photosynthetic biofilms

Abstract

Microphytobenthos and sea ice algae comprise globally significant photosynthetic biofilms. While their microalgal and bacterial constituents are well characterized, there is very little information on their viral communities or on the virus–bacteria and virus–algae interactions within them. While high levels of interaction might be expected because of the high density of cells, infection rates, particularly of microalgae, have been found to be low. It remains unclear whether this is a result of environment characteristics, developed resistance or because of the small number of studies.

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): MLST

Title: Marine Life Science & Technology

Publisher: Springer (China )

ISSN (Print): 2096-6490

ISSN (Electronic): 2662-1746

Publication date (Print): 01 August 2020

Publication date (Electronic): 09 June 2020

Volume: 2

Issue: 3

Pages: 203-208

Affiliations

¹College of Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China

²Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

³Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China

Author notes

*Corresponding author: Andrew McMinn, E-mail: Andrew.mcminn@ 123456utas.edu.ausssd

Andrew McMinn and Yantao Liang have contributed equally to this work.

Article

Publisher ID: s42995-020-00042-2

DOI: 10.1007/s42995-020-00042-2

Copyright statement: © 2020 The Author(s)

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Subject: Review