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The evolution of the tape measure protein: units, duplications and losses

BACKGROUND: A large family of viruses that infect bacteria, called phages, is characterized by long tails used to inject DNA into their victims' cells. The tape measure protein got its name because the length of the corresponding gene is proportional to the length of the phage's tail: a fa...

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Autores principales: Belcaid, Mahdi, Bergeron, Anne, Poisson, Guylaine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22151602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-S9-S10