Phosphate transporters in marine phytoplankton and their viruses: Cross-domain commonalities in viral-host gene exchanges

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 162-176

  Monier, Adam ^a   Welsh, Rory M ^a   Gentemann, Chelle ^b   Weinstock, George ^c   Sodergren, Erica ^c   Armbrust, E Virginia ^d   Eisen, Jonathan A ^e,f   Worden, Alexandra Z ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHATES; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATHYCOCCUS; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PELAGOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84855285214     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02576.x     Document Type: Article

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