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Molecular Insights into Bacteriophage Evolution toward Its Host.
Viruses - 6 Oct 2020
de Leeuw Marina, Baron Maayan, Ben David Oshrit, Kushmaro Ariel
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophages (phages), viruses that infect bacteria, are considered to be highly host-specific. To add to the knowledge about the evolution and development of bacteriophage speciation toward its host, we conducted a 21-day experiment with the broad host-range bacteriophage Aquamicrobium phage P14. We incubated the phage, which was previously isolated and enriched with the Alphaproteobacteria Aquamicrobium H14,...
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