Genomic island variability facilitates Prochlorococcusvirus coexistence

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7353, 2011, Pages 604-608

  Avrani, Sarit ^a   Wurtzel, Omri ^b   Sharon, Itai ^a,c   Sorek, Rotem ^b   Lindell, Debbie ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION SIZE; SELECTION; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SURFACE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GROWTH RATE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PODOVIRIDAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 79959842126     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10172     Document Type: Article

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