Virophages go nuclear in the marine alga Bigelowiella natans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 11750-11751

  Fischer, Matthias G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIGELOWIELLA; DNA VIRUS; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIROPHAGE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; CERCOZOA; GENETICS; GENOME; VIROLOGY;

DNA VIRUS;

CERCOZOA; DNA VIRUSES; GENOME, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84942908366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515142112     Document Type: Note

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