Viral communities associated with healthy and bleaching corals

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2277-2286

  Marhaver, Kristen L ^a   Edwards, Robert A ^b   Rohwer, Forest ^c  

^a CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^b San Diego State University   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, VIRAL; ECOLOGY; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPLORIA STRIGOSA; FUNGI; HERPES; PROTISTA;

EID: 48749097908     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01652.x     Document Type: Article

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