EXPANDING THE MARINE VIROSPHERE USING METAGENOMICS.

Expanding the marine virosphere using metagenomics.

Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity.They play a critical role in the biology of their hosts and in ecosystem functioning at large.The classical approaches studying phages require isolation from a pure culture of the host.Direct seque

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Effects of misinformation on COVID-19 individual responses and recommendations for resilience of disastrous consequences of misinformation

The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms is faster than the spread of Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) and it can generate hefty deleterious consequences on health amid a disaster like COVID-19.Drawing upon research on the stimulus-response theory (hypodermic needle theory) and the resilience theory, zaino this study tested a c

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