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Mahala Peter-Frank

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Sampling Microbial Dynamics in the Salish Sea Estuary: Evaluating Methods to Capture Cyanobacteria and Cyanophage

Noelani R Boise, Owen P. Leiser, Kristin Jones, Mahala Peter-Frank, Damon Leach, Stephen Crafton‐Tempel, Peter Regier, Ruonan Wu, Conner Phillips, Margaret S. Cheung, Connah Johnson, Scott J. Edmundson, David D. Pollock

The paper develops and refines methods to sample and sequence cyanobacteria, cyanophages, and their environment in the Salish Sea to study host-pathogen dynamics.

Frontiers in Marine Science · Feb 24, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology