Example sentences for: host-prophage

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  • Some of the morons have been shown to be related to other bacterial genes, suggesting that they may at first have been host genes integrated in the phage genome [ 22 ] . These genes may then have diverged rapidly because phages are known to have evolutionary rates orders of magnitude higher than those of bacteria [ 25 ] . Morons seem rarely to confer a direct advantage on the phage, but rather stabilize the host-prophage interaction by slightly increasing host fitness [ 20 ] . Therefore, they may undergo weaker selection pressure than genes directly involved in the phage life-cycle and be more sensitive to the mutational bias inherent to parasitic sequences [ 13 ] . From our results, it appears that whatever the nature of the organism in which the gene was first recruited, its compositional characteristics no longer represent its previous genome context.


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