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Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins
Published on: June 11, 2015
Genome sequence of temperate Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophage vB_VpaS_MAR10
Argentina Alanis Villa1, Andrew M Kropinski, Reza Abbasifar
1Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is recognized as one of the main causes of human gastroenteritis associated with seafood. We have fully sequenced the genome of a newly isolated phage, vB_VpaS_MAR10, which lysed 61.9% of the V. parahaemolyticus strains tested. Phage MAR10 is a temperate siphovirus, and its genome consists of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with a size of 78,751 bp, a G+C content of 49.70%, and 104 open reading frames. Bioinformatic analysis shows that phage MAR10 is closely related to Vibrio phage SSP002.
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