Evidence for the intense exchange of MazG in marine cyanophages by horizontal gene transfer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Bryan, Michael J ^a   Burroughs, Nigel J ^a   Spence, Edward M ^a   Clokie, Martha R J ^b   Mann, Nicholas H ^a   Bryan, Samantha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SEA WATER; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOPHAGE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS; MARINE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SIZE; PROGENY; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 44349124497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002048     Document Type: Article

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