Viral and microbial abundances in marine environments

Visualizing the relationship between marine viruses and marine bacteria

This is a collaborative effort of:
Charles H. Wigington
Derek Sonderegger
Corina P. D. Brussaard
Alison Buchan
Jan F. Finke
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jay T. Lennon
Mathias Middelboe
Curtis A. Suttle
Charles Stock
William H. Wilson
K. Eric Wommack
Steven W. Wilhelm
Joshua S. Weitz

Citation:
C.H. Wigington et al. Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances Nature Microbiology 1:15024. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.24 (2016)

Contact:
Joshua S. Weitz, jsweitz@gatech.edu
Steven W. Wilhelm , wilhelm@utk.edu

There are over 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses in the ocean. This dashboard allows users to explore the relationship between microbial cells and viruses through data sampled around the world.