Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1047-1051

  Sullivan, Matthew B ^a   Waterbury, John B ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES;

SUBTROPICAL OCEANS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CYANOBACTERIUM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; WATER SAMPLING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGES; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIGHT; LYSOGENY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MYOVIRIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PODOVIRIDAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0041375471     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01929     Document Type: Article

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