Genomic analysis and relatedness of P2-like phages of the Burkholderia cepacia complex

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lynch, Karlene H ^a   Stothard, Paul ^a   Dennis, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOSIDASE; PROTEIN ECORII C; PROTEIN VSR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE KL3; BACTERIOPHAGE KS14; BACTERIOPHAGE KS5; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS MORPHOGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYSOGENIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE P2; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMICS; HOST SPECIFICITY; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77958141509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-599     Document Type: Article

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