Taxonomic reassessment of N4-like viruses using comparative genomics and proteomics suggests a new subfamily - “Enquartavirinae”

Archives of Virology

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3053-3062

  Wittmann, Johannes ^a   Klumpp, Jochen ^b   Moreno Switt, Andrea I ^c   Yagubi, Abdelbaset ^d   Ackermann, Hans Wolfgang ^e   Wiedmann, Martin ^f   Svircev, Antonet ^d   Nash, John H E ^g   Kropinski, Andrew M ^h  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84946498489     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-015-2609-6     Document Type: Article

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