Has anyone ever seen a phage from deep underground?

Subject: Has anyone ever seen a phage from deep underground?

Date: Thu Mar 2 08:09:16 2000
Posted by Richard Jones
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Assen State/Province: No state entered. Country: Netherlands
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 952006156.Mi

Message:


I understand that there are sulphate reducing bacteria and other bacteria 
that can live far below ground and live off oil and other subsurface 
matter. Have bacteriophages been found that live off these same bacteria? 
Are phages everywhere that bacteria are?

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