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Environmental microbiology: Viral diversity on the global stage

Viruses, once thought of only as purveyors of disease, take centre stage, from the human microbiome to the oceans, as archives of global diversity and drivers of biogeochemical cycles.

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Figure 1: Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of viral taxa.

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