Metagenomic characterization of viral communities in corals: mining biological signal from methodological noise

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3440-3449

  Wood Charlson, Elisha M ^a,d   Weynberg, Karen D ^a   Suttle, Curtis A ^b   Roux, Simon ^c,e   van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA VIRUS; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; RNA VIRUS; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME, VIRAL; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; RNA VIRUSES; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84973461679     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12803     Document Type: Review

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