Isolation and characterization of a bacteriophage with an unusually large genome from the Great Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, USA

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Seaman, Paul F ^a   Day, Martin J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage ecology; Extreme environment; Halophile; Transduction; Viral evolution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOME; HOST RANGE; ISOLATED POPULATION; SALINITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENUS; HALOMONAS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED STATES; VIRION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILD TYPE; WILDLIFE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HALOMONAS; LYSOGENY; MYOVIRIDAE; OKLAHOMA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; SALT PLAINS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS SALINA; MYOVIRIDAE;

EID: 33947216634     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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