Results of Black Sea algal viruses monitoring
Journal: Limnology and Freshwater Biology
Year: 2020

Search, isolation, study and monitoring of Black Sea algal viruses, new to science or new for the Black Sea ecosystem, has been carried out at the Sevastopol Institutes of for over 18 years. During this time more than 300 strains of algal viruses were isolated to seven species of microalgae and to one species of cyanobacteria from more than one thousand different samples (sea water, bottom sediments, mussels and fish). The purpose of the work is to summarize and analyze the results of long-term