High abundance of viruses found in aquatic environments.
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...In the late 1980s, it was discovered that there is a very high abundance of viruses (as high as 10(8) per ml) in both limnetic (fresh water) and marine systems and that the majority of these viruses are bacteriophages (13, 202)....
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...The observation that millions of virus-like particles are present in every millilitre of ocean wate...
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...Mamala Bay, Hawaii [19] TEM/c 0....
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...jpg" NDATA ITEM> ]> For years viruses were known to exist in seawater, but reports 15 years ago caused great excitement by demonstrating not only that viruses are abundant, but that they infect the dominant organisms in the ocea...
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