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Portal protein diversity and phage ecology.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2008
Sullivan Matthew B, Coleman Maureen L, Quinlivan Vanessa, Rosenkrantz Jessica E, Defrancesco Alicia S, Tan G, Fu Ross, Lee Jessica A, Waterbury John B, Bielawski Joseph P, Chisholm Sallie W
Abstract excerpt
Oceanic phages are critical components of the global ecosystem, where they play a role in microbial mortality and evolution. Our understanding of phage diversity is greatly limited by the lack of useful genetic diversity measures. Previous studies, focusing on myophages that infect the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus, have used the coliphage T4 portal-protein-encoding homologue, gene 20 (g20), as a diversity...
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