Virus (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Virus

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This virus that attacks the cyanobacteria, Prochlorococcus (seen here through a transmission electron micrograph), was isolatd from the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda.

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Simon Labrie and Qinglu Zeng, Chisholm Lab

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