Molecular characterization of pHRDV1, a new virus-like mobile genetic element closely related to pleomorphic viruses in haloarchaea

Extremophiles

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-206

  Chen, Shaoxing ^a,b   Wang, Chuanming ^b   Xu, Jian Ping ^c   Yang, Zhu L ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b HONGHE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Halorubrum; Horizontal gene transfer; Hypersaline environment; Mobile genetic elements

Indexed keywords

HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOGEOMETRICUM; HALORUBRUM;

ARCHAEAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEAL VIRUS; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HALORUBRUM; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALORUBRUM; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84896734574     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-013-0599-4     Document Type: Article

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