Talk:Marine bacteriophage

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 February 2019 and 20 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ferrellb.

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Formulation
The article mentions this currently: "This would increase the efficiency of the biological pump."

But what exactly is a "biological pump" in this context? It seems unclear to me. 84.112.136.52 (talk) 20:37, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Proposed edits to marine bacteriophage page
I'd like to propose edits to the marine bacteriophage page, including combining the main section and Marine phage section, updating information (eg recent work shows that nontailed phages are the dominant phages in oceans, not tailed phages), including additional information on abundances and virus bacteria ratios (VBRs), and describing bioinformatic approaches to identifying viral contigs. Citations will be added for all. No updates to Sediments section, and minor updates to Nutrient cycles (rather than Carbon cycle) to reflect viral impacts on multiple nutrient cycles. Ferrellb (talk) 22:58, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , unless you're expecting changes you're thinking of making to be contentious, there's no need to discuss improvements before making edits. See WP:BOLD, and WP:CONACHIEVE. I'm not sure that all of the Marine phage section should also be lumped into the main section (or "lead"), as the lead should be a summary of the body, see MOS:LEAD for more guidelines on that. Rhinopias (talk) 21:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Merged into another article
This article has been merged into Marine viruses per this merge consensus and is now a redirect. See the redirect history for attribution. — Epipelagic (talk) 05:17, 19 June 2020 (UTC)