Discovery of a dsRNA virus infecting the marine photosynthetic protist Micromonas pusilla

Virology

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 280-291

  Brussaard, C P D ^a   Noordeloos, A A M ^a   Sandaa, R A ^b   Heldal, M ^b   Bratbak, G ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

11 Segmented genome; dsRNA virus; Micromonas pusilla; Phytoplankton; Protist; Reoviridae

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; CHELATING AGENT; CHLOROFORM; DETERGENT; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ETHER; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; REDUCING AGENT;

ACIDITY; ALGA; AQUAREOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZING; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE NUMBER; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HOST; LATENT PERIOD; MICROMONAS PUSILLA; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; REOVIRUS; RNA VIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THAWING; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

AQUAREOVIRUS; DSRNA VIRUSES; MICROMONAS PUSILLA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; REOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 1342343137     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.10.033     Document Type: Article

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