The diversity of coliphages and coliforms in horse feces reveals a complex pattern of ecological interactions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5975-5981

  Golomidova, Alla ^a   Kulikov, Eugene ^a   Isaeva, Alina ^a   Manykin, Anatoly ^b   Letarov, Andrey ^a  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

COLIFORMS; COLIPHAGES; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; GENOMIC FINGERPRINTING; HORSE FECES; HORSE GUT MICROBIAL SYSTEMS; INDIGENOUS COLIFORM STRAINS (ICS);

BACTERIA;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FECES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HORSE; LIMITING FACTOR; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HORSE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COLIPHAGES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35148877671     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01145-07     Document Type: Article

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