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Widespread genetic exchange among terrestrial bacteriophages.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Dec 2005
Silander Olin K, Weinreich Daniel M, Wright Kevin M, O'Keefe Kara J, Rang Camilla U, Turner Paul E, Chao Lin
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages are the most numerous entities in the biosphere. Despite this numerical dominance, the genetic structure of bacteriophage populations is poorly understood. Here, we present a biogeography study involving 25 previously undescribed bacteriophages from the Cystoviridae clade, a group characterized by a dsRNA genome divided into three segments. Previous laboratory manipulation has shown that, when...
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