Hybridization analysis of Chesapeake Bay virioplankton

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 241-250

  Wommack, K Eric ^a,b   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Hill, Russell T ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; PLANKTON; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032931852     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.1.241-250.1999     Document Type: Article

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