Host-virus dynamics and subcellular controls of cell fate in a natural coccolithophore population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19327-19332

  Vardi, Assaf ^a,e   Haramaty, Liti ^a   Van Mooy, Benjamin A S ^b   Fredricks, Helen F ^b   Kimmance, Susan A ^c   Larsen, Aud ^d   Bidle, Kay D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d Uni Research   (Norway)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALGAL BLOOM; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; COCCOLITHOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYTA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

BIOPOLYMERS; CASPASES; CELL LINEAGE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EUTROPHICATION; HAPTOPHYTA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; NORWAY; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 84869853243     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208895109     Document Type: Article

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