The proportional lack of archaeal pathogens: Do viruses/phages hold the key?

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 248-254

  Gill, Erin E ^a   Brinkman, Fiona S L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; Pathogen; Phage; Virus

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEAL VIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHOLERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79952680106     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000091     Document Type: Article

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