Characterization of four lytic transducing bacteriophages of luminescent Vibrio harveyi isolated from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) hatcheries

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-91

  Thiyagarajan, Sanjeevi ^a   Chrisolite, Bagthasingh ^a   Alavandi, Shankar V ^a   Poornima, Modem ^a   Kalaimani, Natarajan ^a   Santiago, T Chinnappan ^a  

^a ICAR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF BRACKISHWATER AQUACULTURE   (India)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages; Luminescent bacterial disease; Penaeus monodon; PFGE; Podoviridae; REA; Siphoviridae; Vibrio harveyi

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEAN DISEASE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME ANALYSIS; MARICULTURE; NONHUMAN; PENAEUS MONODON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHRIMP; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRIO HARVEYI; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PENAEUS MONODON; PODOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 80755167722     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02415.x     Document Type: Article

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