Wide geographic distribution of bacteriophages that lyse the same indigenous freshwater isolate (Sphingomonas sp. strain B18)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2395-2398

  Wolf, Arite ^a,b   Wiese, Jutta ^a   Jost, Günter ^b   Witzel, Karl Paul ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

FRESHWATER BACTERIUM;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

FRESH WATER;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; FRESHWATER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOVIRIDAE; PLAQUE ASSAY; PODOVIRIDAE; SEAWATER; SIPHOVIRIDAE; SPHINGOMONAS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

GERMANY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0037394671     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2395-2398.2003     Document Type: Article

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