Cold-active bacteriophages from the Baltic Sea ice have diverse genomes and virus–host interactions

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3628-3641

  Senčilo, Ana ^a   Luhtanen, Anne Mari ^a,b,c   Saarijärvi, Mikko ^a   Bamford, Dennis H ^a   Roine, Elina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEA; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENOME, VIRAL; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO;

EID: 84973483682     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12611     Document Type: Article

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