Isolation, characterization and complete nucleotide sequence of a novel temperate bacteriophage Min1, isolated from the nematode pathogen Microbacterium nematophilum

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 582-590

  Akimkina, Tatiana ^a   Venien Bryan, Catherine ^b   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Coryneform; Lysogen; Nematode; Pathogen, Siphoviridae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE MIN1; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA MODIFICATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIRION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROBACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; NEMATODA; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 34748904036     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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