Diversity and evolutionary relationships of T7-like podoviruses infecting marine cyanobacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1476-1491

  Dekel Bird, Naama P ^a   Avrani, Sarit ^a   Sabehi, Gazalah ^a   Pekarsky, Irina ^a   Marston, Marcia F ^b   Kirzner, Shay ^a   Lindell, Debbie ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PODOVIRIDAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; MIRIDAE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84876502182     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12103     Document Type: Article

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