The linear plasmid prophage Vp58.5 of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is closely related to the integrating phage VHML and constitutes a new incompatibility group of telomere phages

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 9313-9320

  Zabala, Beatriz ^b   Hammerl, Jens A ^a   Espejo, Romilio T ^b   Hertwig, Stefan ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ORDER; GENOME; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGE VHML; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; TELOMERE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIRUS INTEGRATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 69449083852     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00672-09     Document Type: Article

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