From small hosts come big viruses: The complete genome of a second Ostreococcus tauri virus, OtV-1

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2821-2839

  Weynberg, Karen D ^a,b   Allen, Michael J ^a   Ashelford, Kevin ^c   Scanlan, David J ^b   Wilson, William H ^a,d  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

CHLOROPHYTA; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; MIRIDAE; OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PRASINOVIRUS;

EID: 70350439602     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01991.x     Document Type: Article

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