Synergistic Effects of Combined Viral and Protistan Predation on Marine Cyanobacterium Synechococcus Physiology

Sheri Floge1, Cristina Howard-Varona2, Simon Roux3, Benjamin Bowen4, Rebecca Lau5, Sarah M Schwenck6, Samuel Schwartz7, Tanja Woyke8, Trent Northen4 and Matthew B Sullivan9, (1)Wake Forest University, Biology, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Microbiology, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Joint Genome Institute, Environmental Genomics, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Wake Forest University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, (8)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (9)Ohio State University Main Campus, Microbiology, Columbus, United States