High frequency of a novel filamentous phage, VCYφ, within an environmental Vibrio cholerae population

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-33

  Xue, Hong ^a   Xu, Yan ^a,b   Boucher, Yan ^a,c   Polz, Martin F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENTOUS PHAGE; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; GENOME SIZES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INITIATION FACTORS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHAGE DISPLAY; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; SHELLFISH;

LAKES;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIUM; BRACKISH WATER; CHOLERA; CHROMOSOME; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL ZONE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; PLASMID; POLYMORPHISM; POND; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; INOVIRIDAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POND; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; INOVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PONDS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES; WOODS HOLE;

INOVIRUS; OSTREIDAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84862964733     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06297-11     Document Type: Article

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