Characterization of a lytic cyanophage that infects the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae.
Vb-AphaS-CL131 is a novel cyanosiphovirus that infects harmful Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. This cyanophage has an isometric head, 97 nm in diameter and a long, flexible non-contractile tail, 361 nm long. With a genome size of ~120 kb, it is the second largest cyanosiphovirus isolated to date. The latent period was estimated to be ~36 h and a single infected cell produces, on average, 218 infectious cyanophages. Cyanophage infection significantly suppresses host biomass production and alters population phenotype.
['Šulčius|Sigitas|S|', 'Šimoliūnas|Eugenijus|E|', 'Staniulis|Juozas|J|', 'Koreivienė|Judita|J|', 'Baltrušis|Paulius|P|', 'Meškys|Rolandas|R|', 'Paškauskas|Ričardas|R|']
D046890:Aphanizomenon D001435:Bacteriophages D063366:Estuaries D014871:Water Microbiology
Baltic Sea Curonian Lagoon Siphoviridae