A cyanophage is a virus that infects cyanobacteria. The name is constructed from the term phage, for a virus that targets bacteria, and cyanobacteria for the specific type of bacteria this virus uses for replication. Because of the important role of cyanobacteria as primary producers in the world's oceans, the study of their phage ecology

Phage ecology

Bacteriophages , potentially the most numerous "organisms" on Earth, are the viruses of bacteria . Phage ecology is the study of the interaction of bacteriophages with their environments...

 is important toward understanding global carbon cycling.

External links

• the Virus Ecology Group (VEG)
• the Bacteriophage Ecology Group (BEG)
• the Tucson Marine Phage Lab (TMPL)

Further reading