Re-examining the relationship between virus and microbial cell abundances in the global oceans

Charles H. Wigington, Derek Sonderegger, Corina P.D. Brussaard, 4 Alison Buchan, Jan F. Finke, Jed Fuhrman, Jay T. Lennon, Mathias Middelboe, Curtis A. Suttle, Charles Stock, William H. Wilson, K. Eric Wommack, Steven W. Wilhelm, ∗ and Joshua S. Weitz 14, † 1 School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 3 Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands. 4 Department of Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 6 Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 7 Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 8 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 9 Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingr, Denmark 10 Departments of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, and Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4; Program in Integrated Microbial Diversity, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto ON M5G 1Z8 11 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, NJ 08540-6649 12 Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, UK 13 Plant and Soil Sciences Delaware Biotechnology Institute Newark, DE 14 School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 (Dated: August 25, 2015)