A new family of hybrid virophages from an animal gut metagenome

Biology Direct

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yutin, Natalya ^a   Kapitonov, Vladimir V ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MIRIDAE; OVIS ARIES; PROTISTA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMEN; SHEEP; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CAPSID; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME; GENOME, VIRAL; METAGENOME; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; RUMEN; SHEEP;

EID: 84928556807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13062-015-0054-9     Document Type: Article

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