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Open AccessGenomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes
Bacteriophages encode genes that modify bacterial functions during infection. The acquisition of phage-encoded virulence genes is a major mechanism for the rise of bacterial pathogens. In coral reefs, high bac...