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SUBMITTER: Oliveira H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3624390 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oliveira Hugo H Melo Luís D R LD Santos Sílvio B SB Nóbrega Franklin L FL Ferreira Eugénio C EC Cerca Nuno N Azeredo Joana J Kluskens Leon D LD
Journal of virology 20130213 8
Phages are recognized as the most abundant and diverse entities on the planet. Their diversity is determined predominantly by their dynamic adaptation capacities when confronted with different selective pressures in an endless cycle of coevolution with a widespread group of bacterial hosts. At the end of the infection cycle, progeny virions are confronted with a rigid cell wall that hinders their release into the environment and the opportunity to start a new infection cycle. Consequently, phage ...[more]