Example sentences for: phages

How can you use “phages” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These include the cell-wall hydrolases typified by the Pal protein from streptococcal phages [ 24, 25] and the amidase domain of the bacterial and kinetoplastid GSPS [ 26].

  • Table 1shows the relative frequencies of the codons of isoleucine (I) and arginine (R) for all the native and transferred genes, IS, and phages for each species.

  • Most of the acquired genes have no known functions, though a few are annotated as membrane proteins, phages or IS.

  • Thus, although bacterial genomes tend to acquire large amounts of DNA, we have shown that those transferred genes have very peculiar features that do not denote a previous genomic context but connect them with parasitic sequences such as phages.

  • 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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