From Orphan Phage to a Proposed New Family–the Diversity of N4-Like Viruses
Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group. In recent years, due to new and relatively inexpensive sequenci...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-09-01
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Series: | Antibiotics |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/9/10/663 |