Genomes of marine cyanopodoviruses reveal multiple origins of diversity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1356-1376

  Labrie, S J ^a   Frois Moniz, K ^a   Osburne, M S ^a   Kelly, L ^a   Roggensack, S E ^a   Sullivan, M B ^a,c   Gearin, G ^b   Zeng, Q ^b   Fitzgerald, M ^b   Henn, M R ^b   Chisholm, S W ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

CYANOBACTERIA; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PODOVIRIDAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84876489323     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12053     Document Type: Article

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