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  1. Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University, 4600 Elkhorn Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA; Author for correspondence (e-mail

    Lisa A. Drake, Keun-Hyung Choi & Fred C. Dobbs

  2. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, MD, 21037, USA

    Gregory M. Ruiz

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Drake, L.A., Choi, KH., Ruiz, G.M. et al. Global Redistribution of Bacterioplankton and Virioplankton Communities. Biological Invasions 3, 193–199 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014561102724

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