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Phage ecology
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<p><a href="/facts/Bacteriophage/L2Ll0T3q">Bacteriophages</a> (<a href="/facts/Bacteriophages/L2Ll0T3q">phages</a>), potentially the most numerous "organisms" on Earth, are the <a href="/facts/Viruses/mf88Bcbl">viruses</a> of <a href="/facts/Bacteria/wC8xSCsU">bacteria</a> (more generally, of <a href="/facts/Prokaryotes/oYyvaDDH">prokaryotes</a>). Phage ecology is the study of the interaction of <a href="/facts/Bacteriophage/L2Ll0T3q">bacteriophages</a> with their <a href="/facts/Natural_environment/NzGY148M">environments</a>. </p>