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SUBMITTER: Deveau H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1489595 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20060601 6
For this study, an in-depth review of the classification of Lactococcus lactis phages was performed. Reference phages as well as unclassified phages from international collections were analyzed by stringent DNA-DNA hybridization studies, electron microscopy observations, and sequence analyses. A new classification scheme for lactococcal phages is proposed that reduces the current 12 groups to 8. However, two new phages (Q54 and 1706), which are unrelated to known lactococcal phages, may belong t ...[more]