Viruses of archaea: Structural, functional, environmental and evolutionary genomics

Virus Research

Volumn 244, Issue , 2018, Pages 181-193

  Krupovic, Mart ^a   Cvirkaite Krupovic, Virginija ^a   Iranzo, Jaime ^b   Prangishvili, David ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRAL PROTEIN;

ARCHAEAL VIRUS; DEEP SEA; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARCHAEON; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 85035327063     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.11.025     Document Type: Review

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