Ecology of marine and wetland viruses

Project description

Research in the last decade has shown that there are up to 109 viruses in one millilitre of seawater and more than 1030 in the entire ocean, making marine viruses the most abundant genetic units in the biosphere. The concentration of viruses can be even higher than this in wetlands. Most of these viruses infect microbes and invertebrates. Thus far, research has focused on variation in number and infectivity with only a handful having been identified and no infectious cycles having been completely worked out. There is almost nothing known about aquatic South Australian and Australian viruses. This leaves the areas of enumeration, distribution and identity wide open to investigation. This field is particularly suitable to imaginative and well thought out thesis projects because so little has been done.

Co-supervisors

Rob Edwards, Peter Speck, Howard Fallowfield

Note: You need to register interest in projects from different supervisors (not a number of projects with the one supervisor).
You must also contact each supervisor directly to discuss both the project details and your suitability to undertake the project.