Bacteriophages with tails: Chasing their origins and evolution

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-257

  Hendrix, Roger W ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a   Smith, Margaret C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Comparative genomics; Genome evolution

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAIL; VIRUS EXAMINATION;

CAUDOVIRALES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0038392697     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(03)00068-8     Document Type: Review

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