1 2 3 Genetics for Pseudoalteromonas provides tools to manipulate marine bacterial 4 virus PM 2 5 6 7

1 2 3 Genetics for Pseudoalteromonas provides tools to manipulate marine bacterial 4 virus PM2 5 6 7 Hanna M. Kivelä 1,2# , Stefania Madonna 3#¤ , Mart Krupovič 2 , 8 M. Luisa Tutino 3,4 and Jaana K. H. Bamford 1* 9 10 11 1) Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, P.O. Box 35, 12 FIN-40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. 13 2) Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Institute of Biotechnology, P.O. 14 Box 56, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 15 3) Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Naples Federico II, Monte 16 Sant'Angelo, Via Cinthia, 4 80126, Naples, Italy. 17 4) Faculty of Biotechnological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. Naples, Italy 18 19 # These authors contributed equally to this work. 20 21 ¤ Present address: Laboratory of Immunology and Allergology, Istituto Dermopatico 22 dell’Immacolata (IDI)-IRCCS, Rome, Italy 23 24 * Corresponding author 25 Jaana K. H. Bamford 26 Department of Biological and Environmental Science 27 Ambiotica, P.O. Box 35 (Survontie 9) 28 FIN-40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 29 tel: +358-14-26