Small but sufcient: The Rhodococcus phage RRH1 has the smallest known Siphoviridae genome at 14.2 Kilobases

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 358-363

  Petrovski, Steve ^a,b   Dyson, Zoe A ^a   Seviour, Robert J ^a   Tillett, Daniel ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE RRH1; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOCOCCUS GLOBERULUS; RHODOCOCCUS RHODNII; RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAUDOVIRALES; MIRIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RHODOCOCCUS; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84855971525     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.05460-11     Document Type: Article

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