title: Complete genome sequences of 138 mycobacteriophages.
abstract: Bacteriophages are the most numerous biological entities in the biosphere, and although their genetic diversity is high, it remains ill defined. Mycobacteriophages-the viruses of mycobacterial hosts-provide insights into this diversity as well as tools for manipulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We report here the complete genome sequences of 138 new mycobacteriophages, which-together with the 83 mycobacteriophages previously reported-represent the largest collection of phages known to infect a single common host, Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2) 155.
authors.affiliation: Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. gfh@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Graham F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Hatfull
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009160:Mycobacteriophages / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D020102:Mycobacterium smegmatis / Q000821:virology*