Environmental bacteriophages: Viruses of microbes in aquatic ecosystems

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Sime Ngando, Télesphore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystems; Bacteria; Biogeochemical cycling; Food web dynamics; Horizontal gene transfers; Lysis; Lysogeny; Viruses

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL VIRUS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHAEON; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARBON CYCLING; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LYSOGENIZATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 84905185046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00355     Document Type: Review

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