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Marine T4-type bacteriophages, a ubiquitous component of the dark matter of the biosphere.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Aug 2005
Filée Jonathan, Tétart Françoise, Suttle Curtis A, Krisch H M
Abstract excerpt
Tailed bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities in marine environments. However, most of these marine phages are uncharacterized because few of their hosts have been cultivated. To learn more about such phages, we designed a set of degenerate PCR primers for phage T4 g23, which encodes the major capsid protein in all of the T4-type phages, an important family of the tailed phage. These primers...
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