Viruses and bacteria in floodplain lakes along a major Amazon tributary respond to distance to the Amazon River

Because of the massive water volume of the Amazon River, the Amazon tributaries have their water backed up by hundreds of kilometers upstream their mouth. This backwater effect is part of the complex hydrodynamics of Amazonian surface waters, which in turn drives the variation in concentrations of o...

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Main Authors: Rafael Marques Almeida, Fabio eRoland, Simone Jaqueline Cardoso, Vinicius Fortes Farjalla, Reinaldo L. Bozelli, Nathan Oliveira Barros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00158/full