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Medical Microbiology
Microbial Genetics and Genomics
Sean Benler
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Open AccessThousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes
Double-stranded DNA bacteriophages (dsDNA phages) play pivotal roles in structuring human gut microbiomes; yet, the gut virome is far from being fully characterized, and additional groups of phages, including ...
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Open AccessA diversity-generating retroelement encoded by a globally ubiquitous Bacteroides phage
Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic cassettes that selectively mutate target genes to produce hypervariable proteins. First characterized in Bordetella bacteriophage BPP-1, the DGR creates a hyp...
