Phage evolution: new worlds of genomic diversity.
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.
Papke
R Thane
RT
Department of Biochemistry, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Dalhousie University, B3H 4H7, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Doolittle
W Ford
WF
D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D015321:Gene Rearrangement / Q000235:genetics*; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal / Q000235:genetics*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D009160:Mycobacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*