10,000,000 Bacteriophages in a Teaspoon of Seawater

Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in marine environments On average there are about ten million of them in a typical teaspoon of seawater. Most of these viruses are bacteriophages infecting heterotrophic bacteria and cyanophages infecting cyanobacteria (Wikipedia). Artwork and video by Eveline Kolijn. Music based on the nucleotides of phage ɸX174 by Nakul Tiruviluamala and Joe O'Quinn. 2015phage.org/m...