Dataset: Morphotypes, capsid widths, and tail lengths of viruses from samples collected in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen minimum zone region (ETNP OMZ) on R/V New Horizon cruise NH1315 during June 2013

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.823131.1Version 1 (2020-09-02)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Jennifer R. Brum (University of Arizona)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Ecology and biogeochemical impacts of viruses in marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZ Viruses)


Abstract

Morphotypes, capsid widths, and tail lengths of viruses in samples collected in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen minimum zone region (ETNP OMZ) on R/V New Horizon cruise NH1315 from 13-28 June 2013. Viruses were deposited onto TEM grids, positively stained, and examined using a transmission electron microscope. Micrographs were collected and characterized by morphotype, as well as measured using ImageJ software.

Morphotypes, capsid widths, and tail lengths of viruses in samples collected in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen minimum zone region (ETNP OMZ) on R/V New Horizon cruise NH1315 from 13-28 June 2013. Viruses were deposited onto TEM grids, positively stained, and examined using a transmission electron microscope. Micrographs were collected and characterized by morphotype, as well as measured using ImageJ software.


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