Are viruses driving microbial diversification and diversity?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Weinbauer, Markus G ^a   Rassoulzadegan, Fereidoun ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LYSOGENY; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0842266354     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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