Mycobacteriophages BPs, angel and halo: Comparative genomics reveals a novel class of ultra-small mobile genetic elements

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2962-2977

  Sampson, Timothy ^a   Broussard, Gregory W ^a   Marinelli, Laura J ^a   Jacobs Sera, Deborah ^a   Ray, Mondira ^a   Ko, Ching Chung ^a   Russell, Daniel ^a   Hendrix, Roger W ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LYSOGENY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 69949178774     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.030486-0     Document Type: Article

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