HTVC010P

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HTVC010P is a virus which was discovered by Stephen Giovannoni and colleagues at Oregon State University. The Economist reports that a February 2013 paper in Nature says that "it probably really is the commonest organism on the planet". It is a bacteriophage that infects the extremely abundant bacteria Pelagibacter ubique in the Pelagibacterales order.{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21571843-newly-discovered-virus-may-be-most-abundant-organism-planet-flea|title=Flea market: A newly discovered virus may be the most abundant organism on the planet|date=16 February 2013|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=16 February 2013}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Zhao | first1 = Y. | last2 = Temperton | first2 = B. | last3 = Thrash | first3 = J. C. | last4 = Schwalbach | first4 = M. S. | last5 = Vergin | first5 = K. L. | last6 = Landry | first6 = Z. C. | last7 = Ellisman | first7 = M. | last8 = Deerinck | first8 = T. | last9 = Sullivan | first9 = M. B. | doi = 10.1038/nature11921 | last10 = Giovannoni | first10 = S. J. | title = Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean | journal = Nature | volume = 494 | issue = 7437 | pages = 357–360 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23407494| bibcode = 2013Natur.494..357Z | s2cid = 4348619 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Kirchman | first1 = D. L. | title = Microbial oceanography: Killers of the winners | doi = 10.1038/nature11951 | journal = Nature | volume = 494 | issue = 7437 | pages = 320–1 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23407493| bibcode = 2013Natur.494..320K | s2cid = 205232993 | doi-access = free }}

References

Category:Bacteriophages