Genomic and structural analysis of Syn9, a cyanophage infecting marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus.

PR, Weigele; WH, Pope; ML, Pedulla; JM, Houtz; AL, Smith; JF, Conway; J, King; GF, Hatfull; JG, Lawrence; RW, Hendrix

doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01285.x

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Genomic and structural analysis of Syn9, a cyanophage infecting marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus.

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Weigele PR

Pope WH

Pedulla ML

Abstract

Cyanobacteriophage Syn9 is a large, contractile-tailed bacteriophage infecting the widespread, numerically dominant marine cyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Its 177,300 bp genome sequence encodes 226 putative proteins and six tRNAs. Experimental and computational analyse...

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