Mortality of marine bacteria in response to enrichments of the virus size fraction from seawater

Abstract

The potential for viral lysis of marine bacteria in seawater enriched with the virus size fraction from seawater was investigated in seawater samples from Long Island Sound, the E Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. A dominant bacterial mortality agent in the seawater concentrate was bacteriophage, although the authors could not rule out an effect of high molecular weight proteins. -from Authors