Sharing of Prey: Coinfection of a Bacterium by a Virus and a Prokaryotic Predator

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Huan ^a   Williams, Henry N ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BDELLOVIBRIO; CELL SIZE; HOST CELL; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS SURVIVAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BDELLOVIBRIO; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 84860535248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00051-12     Document Type: Article

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