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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |