A taxonomic review of Clostridium difficile phages and proposal of a novel genus, "Phimmp04likevirus"

Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2534-2541

  Hargreaves, Katherine R ^a,b   Clokie, Martha R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Bacteriophage phylogeny; Clostridium difficile; Myoviridae; Protein clustering; Siphoviridae; Small myovirus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEOMICS; TAXONOMY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MYOVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; MYOVIRIDAE; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MYOVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84930958634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v7052534     Document Type: Article

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