Gene swapping in the dead zone

Jillian Petersen; Nicole Dubilier

doi:10.7554/eLife.04600

Gene swapping in the dead zone

Elife. 2014 Oct 13:3:e04600. doi: 10.7554/eLife.04600.

Authors

Jillian Petersen¹, Nicole Dubilier²

Affiliations

¹ Jillian Petersen is in the Symbiosis Department, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany jmpeters@mpi-bremen.de.
² Nicole Dubilier is in the Symbiosis Department, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany ndubilie@mpi-bremen.de.

Abstract

Viruses can swap DNA between bacteria that live in regions of the oceans with little or no oxygen.

Keywords: SUP05; bacteriophages; ecology; infectious disease; microbiology; oxygen minimum zone; single cell genomics; viral dark matter; viruses.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Caudovirales / genetics*
Gammaproteobacteria / genetics*
Metagenome / genetics*
Microviridae / genetics*