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Genetic diversity of Microcystis cyanophages in two different freshwater environments.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Jun 2014
Nakamura Ginji, Kimura Shigeko, Sako Yoshihiko, Yoshida Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages rapidly diversify their genes through co-evolution with their hosts. We hypothesize that gene diversification of phages leads to locality in phages genome. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the genetic diversity and composition of Microcystis cyanophages using 104 sequences of Ma-LMM01-type cyanophages from two geographically distant sampling sites. The intergenetic region between the...
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