Machine-Learning Classification Suggests That Many Alphaproteobacterial Prophages May Instead Be Gene Transfer Agents
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DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz206
Abstract: Abstract Many of the sequenced bacterial and archaeal genomes encode regions of viral provenance. Yet, not all of these regions encode bona fide viruses. Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are thought to be former viruses that… read more here.
Keywords: transfer agents; many alphaproteobacterial; rcgta like; gene transfer ... See more keywords