Publications

isolation and characterization of a cyanophage infecting the toxic cyanobacterium microcystis aeruginosa.	we isolated a cyanophage (ma-lmm01) that specifically infects a toxic strain of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium microcystis aeruginosa. transmission electron microscopy showed that the virion is composed of anisometric head and a tail complex consisting of a central tube and a contractile sheath with helical symmetry. the morphological features and the host specificity suggest that ma-lmm01 is a member of the cyanomyovirus group. using semi-one-step growth experiments, the latent period and bur ...	2006	16461672
the distribution of a phage-related insertion sequence element in the cyanobacterium, microcystis aeruginosa.	the cyanophage ma-lmm01, specifically-infecting microcystis aeruginosa, has an insertion sequence (is) element that we named is607-cp showing high nucleotide similarity to a counterpart in the genome of the cyanobacterium cyanothece sp. we tested 21 strains of m. aeruginosa for the presence of is607-cp using pcr and detected the element in strains nies90, nies112, nies604, and rm6. thermal asymmetric interlaced pcr (tail-pcr) revealed each of these strains has multiple copies of is607-cp. some o ...	2010	21576885