Mycobacteriophages: Genes and genomes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages 331-356

  Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

bacteriophage; genome evolution; genomics; mycobacteria; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE CYCLE; MOSAICISM; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRION;

DNA, VIRAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77957955708     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134233     Document Type: Review

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