Revealing virus-host interplay

Mart Krupovic (1) , Dennis H. Bamford (2)

1 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
2 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki

Comment on: Probing individual environmental bacteria for viruses by using microfluidic digital PCR. [Science. 2011] Discoveries made by environmental virologists during the past decade or so have revolutionized our perception of the living world. It has become apparent that viruses are the most abundant living entities on Earth, outnumbering their hosts by an order of magnitude. The vast majority of viruses infect microbes, but [...]

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Virology

Mart Krupovic, Dennis H. Bamford. Revealing virus-host interplay. Science, 2011, 333 (6038), pp.45-46. ⟨10.1126/science.1208557⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977411⟩