Phage Introns and the mobilome

The SEA Phage members that isolated cluster J Phages all got together and published a paper in PLoS.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069273

This is a great paper to read slowly over this semester as you learn more about phage genomes.

I think it is so interesting how they discovered 2 introns using the alignment tools and then confirmed their hypothesis by isolating and analyzing the predicted proteins.

They described a “luxuriant mobilome”….Maybe we will see something similar?

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I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biology. My research interests are in genomics and microbiology, especially S. aureus and bacteriophage. I am convinced that the best way to teach science is to do science and my current work includes transforming our introductory labs to Classroom Undergraduate Research Experiences in Biology (CURES in BIO).

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