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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2008 65(5):716-722; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn024
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© 2008 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Furtive foes: algal viruses as potential invaders

Janice E. Lawrence

Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, PO Bag Service 45111, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 6E1; tel: +1 506 4587842; fax: +1 506 4533583; e-mail: jlawrenc{at}unb.ca

Lawrence, J. E. 2008. Furtive foes: algal viruses as potential invaders. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 716–722.

Viruses are abundant in the world's oceans, existing through parasitic relationships with their various hosts. Algal viruses infect representatives of all major algal taxa, influencing phytoplankton population dynamics, marine foodweb interactions, and global biogeochemical cycling. Although the transportation, spread, and persistence of specific viruses remain to be explored fully, the potential for algal virus introductions and invasions is clearly evident. An estimated 3 x 1022 viruses are transported globally in ballast water alone, destined for ports where few physiological or physical barriers inhibit their invasive success. This fact, coupled with recent findings that viruses are not homogeneously distributed throughout the world's oceans, suggests that virus invasions pose a potential threat to marine ecosystems.

Keywords: algal viruses, invasive species, marine viruses

Received 26 June 2007; accepted 26 January 2008; advance access publication 11 March 2008.


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