Vibriophage VpV262.

Stephen C. Hardies, André M. Comeau, Philip Serwer and Curtis A. Suttle
The complete sequence of marine bacteriophage VpV262 infecting vibrio
parahaemolyticus indicates that an ancestral component of a T7 viral
supergroup is widespread in the marine environment.
Virology 310 (2), 199-372 (5 June 2003)

A recent seminar summarizing the project.

Characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus phage VpV262 was a collaboration of the the UTHSCSA Envirnomental Bacteriophage group (Drs. Stephen C. Hardies and Philip Serwer) with Dr. Curtis Suttle and André Comeau at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver.

Initial Goals:

• To obtain the complete sequence of the 45,874 bp genome of  a vibriophage  infecting Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
• To use this virus as a test system for development of bioinformatics methods for the inference of function and evolutionary history of viral sequences.

Continuing Goals:

Comparative Analysis of the T7 phage series.

Development of rate constants for divergence of the major genes.

Incorporation into a comparative graphics interface

Resouces:

Status | Issues | Sequence | Map | Comparative Genomics

Stephen C. Hardies.

• .Home page (http://biochem.uthscsa.edu/~hs_lab).
• e-mail: hardies@uthscsa.edu.

Philip Serwer.

• Environmental bacteriophage page: (http://instinct.uthsca.edu/~serwer).
• e-mail: serwer@uthscsa.edu.

at:

Department of Biochemistry.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
MSC 7706.
7703 Floyd Curl Dr.
San Antonio, TX  78229-3900.

Curtis Suttle

• Home Page (http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/~suttle/)