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Bacteriophages of Gordonia spp. Display a Spectrum of Diversity and Genetic Relationships.
mBio - 15 Aug 2017
Pope Welkin H, Mavrich Travis N, Garlena Rebecca A, Guerrero-Bustamante Carlos A, Jacobs-Sera Deborah, Montgomery Matthew T, Russell Daniel A, Warner Marcie H, Hatfull Graham F
Abstract excerpt
The global bacteriophage population is large, dynamic, old, and highly diverse genetically. Many phages are tailed and contain double-stranded DNA, but these remain poorly characterized genomically. A collection of over 1,000 phages infecting Mycobacterium smegmatis reveals the diversity of phages of a common bacterial host, but their relationships to phages of phylogenetically proximal hosts are not known....
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