Viruses of the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-43

  Prangishvili, David ^a   Stedman, Kenneth ^b   Zillig, Wolfram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SULFOLOBUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEAT; PHYLOGENY; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIAL VIRUS; EUKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 0035006181     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01910-7     Document Type: Review

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