Evidence for the exchange of segments between genomes during the evolution of lambdoid bacteriophages.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1990.tb00712.x

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Evidence for the exchange of segments between genomes during the evolution of lambdoid bacteriophages.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1990

Highton P J, Chang Y, Myers R J

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Heteroduplexes between the DNA molecules of 12 lambdoid phages were analysed by electron microscopy. The positions of the regions of base sequence homology between the DNA molecules divide them into 35 segments, most of which have a number of alternative forms (alleles), which in general must be...

Topics

Alleles
Bacteriophage lambda
Biological Evolution
DNA, Viral
Genes, Viral
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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