Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space

Nature

Volumn 513, Issue 7517, 2014, Pages 242-245

  Deng, Li ^a,d   Ignacio Espinoza, J Cesar ^a   Gregory, Ann C ^a   Poulos, Bonnie T ^a   Weitz, Joshua S ^b   Hugenholtz, Philip ^c   Sullivan, Matthew B ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA; GENOME; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEAWATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAGGING;

ARTICLE; CYANOPHAGE; DNA VIRUS; HOST CELL; METAGENOMICS; MYOVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECHOCOCCUS; VIRAL TAGGING; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84906254581     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13459     Document Type: Article

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