Broad Spectrum of Mimiviridae Virophage Allows Its Isolation Using a Mimivirus Reporter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gaia, Morgan ^a   Pagnier, Isabelle ^a   Campocasso, Angélique ^a   Fournous, Ghislain ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GUANINE; THREONINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; INDEL MUTATION; MIMIVIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POL B GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROGENESIS; VIROPHAGE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AMOEBA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA VIRUSES; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; MIMIVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; CAFETERIA ROENBERGENSIS; MIMIVIRUS; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE;

EID: 84876186121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061912     Document Type: Article

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