Four newly isolated fuselloviruses from extreme geothermal environments reveal unusual morphologies and a possible interviral recombination mechanism

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2849-2862

  Redder, Peter ^a   Peng, Xu ^b   Brügger, Kim ^b   Shah, Shiraz A ^b   Roesch, Ferdinand ^a   Greve, Bo ^b   She, Qunxin ^b   Schleper, Christa ^c   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Garrett, Roger A ^b   Prangishvili, David ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SULFOLOBUS; THERMAL SPRING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; GENE ORDER; HOT SPRINGS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

ARCHAEA; DNA VIRUSES; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; FUSELLOVIRUS; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 70350444919     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02009.x     Document Type: Article

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