Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 38-46

  Yutin, Natalya ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^a   Gussow, Ayal B ^a   Krupovic, Mart ^b   Segall, Anca ^a,c   Edwards, Robert A ^c   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTEROIDETES; CRASSPHAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS FORMS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

VIRAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BACTEROIDETES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85033594015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0053-y     Document Type: Article

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