1. There is not much known about phage influence on microbial communities in extreme thermal environments. What may be one of the roles these phages have in this environment?
- Phages are an important components of surface hot springs, they are abundant and active components of hot springs capable of killing a significant proportion of the resident microbial populations. They play an important role as predators of hot spring microbial communities and influence carbon and nutrient cycling in these extreme environments.
In extreme thermal environments above the upper temperature limit for eukaryotic life, phages play an important role as predators of prokaryotes in hot spring microbial communities and they also influence carbon and nutrient
- Phages are an important components of surface hot springs, they are abundant and active components of hot springs capable of killing a significant proportion of the resident microbial populations. They play an important role as predators of hot spring microbial communities and influence carbon and nutrient cycling in these extreme environments.
In extreme thermal environments above the upper temperature limit for eukaryotic life, phages play an important role as predators of prokaryotes in hot spring microbial communities and they also influence carbon and nutrient