Mycobacteriophage Marvin: a New Singleton Phage with an Unusual Genome Organization

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Mycobacteriophages represent a genetically diverse group of viruses that infect mycobacterial hosts. Although more than 80 genomes have been sequenced, these still poorly represent the likely diversity of the broader population of phages that can infect the host, Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155. We describe here a newly discovered phage, Marvin, which is a singleton phage, having no previously identified close...

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