Viruses infecting a freshwater filamentous cyanobacterium (Nostoc sp.) encode a functional CRISPR array and a proteobacterial DNA polymerase B

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Chénard, Caroline ^a,c   Wirth, Jennifer F ^a,d   Suttle, Curtis A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; FRESH WATER; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ANABAENA VARIABILIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOPHAGE; CYANOPHAGE N 1; CYANOTHECE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; VIRUS GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; NOSTOC; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84979026021     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00667-16     Document Type: Article

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