The finding that total viral abundance is higher than total prokaryotic abundance and that a
significant fraction of the prokaryotic community is infected with phages in aquatic systems …

The discovery that viruses may be the most abundant organisms in natural waters,
surpassing the number of bacteria by an order of magnitude, has inspired a resurgence of …

Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications is a general text covering
both basic and applied aspects of freshwater ecology and serves as an introduction to the …

Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 290–400 nm) is a crucial environmental factor in alpine
lakes because of the natural increase of the UVR flux with elevation and the high water …

Viruses play important roles in biogeochemical nutrient cycles and act as genomic
reservoirs in marine and freshwater environments, the understanding of which brought …

This is the first description, to our knowledge, of the distribution of human polyomavirus and
simian virus 40 (SV40) in urban sewage. Using a nested-PCR procedure, we report the …

El desarrollo de tecnologías moleculares aplicadas a estudios ambientales ha permitido
constatar que incluso en países altamente industrializados existe una alta prevalencia de …

Viral burst size (BS), ie the number of viruses released during cell lysis, is a critical
parameter for assessing the ecological and biogeochemical role of viruses in aquatic …

For the past 25 years, phage display technology has been an invaluable tool for studies of
protein–protein interactions. However, the inherent biological, biochemical, and biophysical …

Over the last two decades, viruses in aquatic systems have been observed to modify,
influence and control aquatic systems. Since the determination decades ago that viruses …