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Power law rank–abundance models for marine phage communities

  1. Karl Heinz Hoffmann1,
  2. Beltran Rodriguez-Brito2,3,
  3. Mya Breitbart4,
  4. David Bangor2,3,
  5. Florent Angly2,
  6. Ben Felts3,
  7. James Nulton3,
  8. Forest Rohwer2,5,
  9. Peter Salamon3

Article first published online: 7 JUN 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00790.x

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FEMS Microbiology Letters

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volume 273, Issue 2, pages 224–228, August 2007

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Hoffmann, K. H., Rodriguez-Brito, B., Breitbart, M., Bangor, D., Angly, F., Felts, B., Nulton, J., Rohwer, F. and Salamon, P. (2007), Power law rank–abundance models for marine phage communities. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 273: 224–228. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00790.x

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  1. 1

    Physics Institute, Technical University of Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

  2. 2

    Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

  3. 3

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

  4. 4

    College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA

  5. 5

    Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

*Correspondence: Peter Salamon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-7720, USA. Tel.: +1 619 594 7204; fax: +1 619 594 6746; e-mail: salamon@sdsu.edu

  1. Editor: Wolfgang Schumann

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 18 JUN 2007
  2. Article first published online: 7 JUN 2007
  3. Received 21 January 2007; revised 29 April 2007; accepted 7 May 2007.First published online 7 June 2007.

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