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. 2012 Feb;86(4):2382-4.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.06870-11.

Complete genome sequences of 138 mycobacteriophages

Graham F Hatfull  1 ; Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science Program; KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV Mycobacterial Genetics Course Students; Phage Hunters Integrating Research and Education Program
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Complete genome sequences of 138 mycobacteriophages

Graham F Hatfull et al. J Virol. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

Bacteriophages are the most numerous biological entities in the biosphere, and although their genetic diversity is high, it remains ill defined. Mycobacteriophages-the viruses of mycobacterial hosts-provide insights into this diversity as well as tools for manipulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We report here the complete genome sequences of 138 new mycobacteriophages, which-together with the 83 mycobacteriophages previously reported-represent the largest collection of phages known to infect a single common host, Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2) 155.

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