Advances in the study of marine viruses

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-161

  Proctor, Lita M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; epifluorescence microscopy; marine bacteriophages; marine viruses; virus like particles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTICS; INORGANIC-ORGANIC; MARINE BACTERIOPHAGE; MARINE VIRUS; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE; PLANKTONIC COMMUNITY; SIZE CLASS; VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES; WORLD OCEAN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; GROSS PASSAGE A MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030898290     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970415)37:2<136::AID-JEMT3>3.3.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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