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Characterization of phi8, a bacteriophage containing three double-stranded RNA genomic segments and distantly related to Phi6.
Virology - 20 Jun 2000
Hoogstraten D, Qiao X, Sun Y, Hu A, Onodera S, Mindich L
Abstract excerpt
The three double-stranded RNA genomic segments of bacteriophage Phi8 were copied as cDNA, and their nucleotide sequences were determined. Although the organization of the genome is similar to that of Phi6, there is no similarity in either the nucleotide sequences or the amino acid sequences, with the exception of the motifs characteristic of viral RNA polymerases that are found in the presumptive polymerase...
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