Characterization of phages virulent for Sarothamnus scoparius bradyrhizobia

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 244-249

  Małek, Wanda ^a   Sajnaga, Ewa ^a   Wdowiak Wróbel, Sylwia ^a   Studzińska, Bozena ^a   Świȩicka, Izabela ^b   Nosalewicz, Izabela ^a   Słomka, Marta ^a   Tatara, Agnieszka ^a   Gawron, Antoni ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENOME SIZE; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; CYTISUS; DNA, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP.; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS; LUPINUS; MYOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 26444577552     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-4557-y     Document Type: Article

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