title: Phage evolution: new worlds of genomic diversity.
abstract: A recent comparative survey of genomes of phages infecting mycobacteria reveals a vast combinatorial network of gene rearrangements and may provide general models for pattern and process in genome evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Dalhousie University, B3H 4H7, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: R Thane
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Papke
authors.forename: W Ford
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Doolittle
mesh_terms: D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D015321:Gene Rearrangement / Q000235:genetics*; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal / Q000235:genetics*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D009160:Mycobacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*