Seasonal variations in virus-host populations in Norwegian coastal waters: Focusing on the cyanophage community infecting marine Synechococcus spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4610-4618

  Sandaa, Ruth Anne ^a   Larsen, Aud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOMYOVIRUSES; GENE FRAGMENTS; GENOMIC SIZE; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

VIRUSES;

COASTAL WATER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRTUAL POPULATION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORWAY; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 33746102191     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00168-06     Document Type: Article

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