Novel group of podovirus infecting the marine bacterium Alteromonas macleodii

Four novel, closely related podoviruses, which displayed lytic activity against the gamma-proteobacterium Alteromonas macleodii, have been isolated and sequenced. Alterophages AltAD45-P1 to P4 were obtained from water recovered near a fish farm in the Mediterranean Sea. Their morphology indicates th...

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Main Authors: Garcia-Heredia, Inmaculada, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco, Martin-Cuadrado, Ana-Belen
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Landes Bioscience 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821669/