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Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins
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Complete genome sequences of Streptomyces phages HazuAndZazu and Tubberson
Nisha Shah1, Phoenix S Bryant1, Meghna Chandrasekaran1
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Abstract:
Bacteriophages HazuAndZazu and Tubberson, belonging to the BI1 and BC1 subclusters, are Caudoviricetes with a siphoviral morphology that infect Streptomyces species. They have GC contents of 59.5% and 71.5%, and genomes 55,823 and 39,028 bp long, respectively. Annotation of cluster BC phage Tubberson includes an immunity mechanism.
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