Evidence of bacteriophage-mediated horizontal transfer of bacterial 16S rRNA genes in the viral metagenome of the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2789-2795

  Harrington, Catriona ^a,b   Del Casale, Antonio ^b   Kennedy, Jonathan ^a   Neve, Horst ^c   Picton, Bernard E ^d   Mooij, Marlies J ^a   O'Gara, Fergal ^a   Kulakov, Leonid A ^b   Larkin, Michael J ^b   Dobson, Alan D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

^d Department of Geology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYMENIACIDON PERLEVIS; METAGENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONGE (PORIFERA); VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYMENIACIDON PERLEVIS;

EID: 84868325426     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.057943-0     Document Type: Article

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