Evolutionary genomics of APSE: a tailed phage that lysogenically converts the bacterium Hamiltonella defensa into a heritable protective symbiont of aphids
Abstract Background Most phages infect free-living bacteria but a few have been identified that infect heritable symbionts of insects or other eukaryotes. Heritable symbionts are usually specialized and isolated from other bacteria with little known about the origins of associated phages. Hamiltonel...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Virology Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01685-y |