Phage ecology
STUDY OF THE INTERACTION OF BACTERIOPHAGES WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENTS
Bacteriophage Ecology
Bacteriophages (phages), potentially the most numerous "organisms" on Earth, are the viruses of bacteria (more generally, of prokaryotesThe term "prokaryotes" is useful to mean the sum of the bacteria and archaea but otherwise can be controversial, as discussed by ; see also pp. 103–4 of