Phage-bacteria network analysis and its implication for the understanding of coral disease

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1203-1218

  Soffer, Nitzan ^a,b   Zaneveld, Jesse ^a   Vega Thurber, Rebecca ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTERALES; INOVIRIDAE; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; RHODOBACTERALES;

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIOPHAGE; CAMPYLOBACTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHODOBACTERACEAE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CAMPYLOBACTER; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; RHODOBACTERACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84926417898     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12553     Document Type: Article

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