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A Unique Group of Virus-Related, Genome-Integrating Elements Found Solely in the Bacterial Family Thermaceae and the Archaeal Family Halobacteriaceae

Jaana K. H. BamfordMatti JalasvuoriAlice Pawlowski

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Archaeal VirusesGeneticsHalobacteriaceaeBacteriaGenomics and ProteomicsvirusesLineage (evolution)ThermusMolecular Sequence DataArchaeal VirusesBiologybiology.organism_classificationMicrobiologyGenomeGenome ArchaealPhylogeneticsBacteriophagesHalomicrobiumMolecular BiologyGeneGenome BacterialPhylogenyMeiothermus

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ABSTRACT Viruses SH1 and P23-77, infecting archaeal Haloarcula species and bacterial Thermus species, respectively, were recently designated to form a novel viral lineage. In this study, the lineage is expanded to archaeal Halomicrobium and bacterial Meiothermus species by analysis of five genome-integrated elements that share the core genes with these viruses.

https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00124-10