SAR11 clade

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Scientific analysts have voiced out that viruses that infect the SAR11 group of oceanic bacteria have finally been found and sequenced. Basically, the SAR11 bacteria have proved to be so abundant as organisms in the oceans, that it survive where most other cells would die. SAR11 bacteria are classified as alphaproteobacteria. According to scientific researchers, SAR11 bacteria include the highly abundant marine species Pelagibacter ubique. Scientific researchers have also mentioned that the SAR11 was so small and widespread that it must be invulnerable to attack. More importantly, experts have advanced that the SAR11 plays a major role in the planet's carbon cycle. In-depth research have shown that the genomes of these pelagiphages are sequenced thus, compared the sequences with DNA of other viruses. As a result, scientific analysts have detected similarities between the pelagiphages and viruses that attack other ocean-dwelling bacteria...