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SUBMITTER: Hatfull GF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1475703 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hatfull Graham F GF Pedulla Marisa L ML Jacobs-Sera Deborah D Cichon Pauline M PM Foley Amy A Ford Michael E ME Gonda Rebecca M RM Houtz Jennifer M JM Hryckowian Andrew J AJ Kelchner Vanessa A VA Namburi Swathi S Pajcini Kostandin V KV Popovich Mark G MG Schleicher Donald T DT Simanek Brian Z BZ Smith Alexis L AL Zdanowicz Gina M GM Kumar Vanaja V Peebles Craig L CL Jacobs William R WR Lawrence Jeffrey G JG Hendrix Roger W RW
PLoS genetics 20060609 6
Bacteriophages are the most abundant forms of life in the biosphere and carry genomes characterized by high genetic diversity and mosaic architectures. The complete sequences of 30 mycobacteriophage genomes show them collectively to encode 101 tRNAs, three tmRNAs, and 3,357 proteins belonging to 1,536 "phamilies" of related sequences, and a statistical analysis predicts that these represent approximately 50% of the total number of phamilies in the mycobacteriophage population. These phamilies co ...[more]