Bacteriophages isolated from Lake Michigan demonstrate broad host-range across several bacterial phyla

Virology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Malki, Kema ^a   Kula, Alex ^a   Bruder, Katherine ^a   Sible, Emily ^a   Hatzopoulos, Thomas ^a   Steidel, Stephanie ^a   Watkins, Siobhan C ^a   Putonti, Catherine ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Broad host range; Freshwater; Lake Michigan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; LAKE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLUM; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNITED STATES; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; WATER ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICHIGAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; LAKES; MICHIGAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRION;

EID: 84943582539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12985-015-0395-0     Document Type: Article

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