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In this view, phages could be considered as a powerful way of inventing new genes potentially beneficial to their hosts.
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that whatever the nature of the organism in which the gene was first recruited, its compositional characteristics no longer represent its previous genome context.
The sporadic distribution of the RecT and Redβ family proteins in bacterial genomes and their presence in phages suggest that these proteins ultimately are of phage origin and have been co-opted by the bacterial DNA recombination/repair systems.
Consistent with this hypothesis, these proteins include antirepressors from phages such as BPP22, BPVT2 and BP933W.
ERF homologs are encoded by the genomes of several temperate phages of Gram-positive bacteria and γ-proteobacteria; additionally, we detected members of this superfamily in Listeria and in all the circular plasmids and one linear plasmid of Borrelia burgdorferi (Fig.
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