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Expression and evolutionary patterns of mycobacteriophage D29 and its temperate close relatives.
BMC microbiology - 2 Dec 2017
Dedrick Rebekah M, Mavrich Travis N, Ng Wei L, Hatfull Graham F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mycobacteriophages are viruses that infect Mycobacterium hosts. A large collection of phages known to infect the same bacterial host strain - Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 - exhibit substantial diversity and characteristically mosaic architectures. The well-studied lytic mycobacteriophage D29 appears to be a deletion derivative of a putative temperate parent, although its parent has yet to be...
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