Article | REF: BIO630 V1

Phages and biotechnologies

Author: Florian LELCHAT

Publication date: August 10, 2020 | Lire en français

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    1. General

    Phages are a polyphyletic group of viruses that specifically infect bacteria and archaea. These viruses, formerly only recognized under the historical term bacteriophages, are also found in the literature under various names such as "prokaryote viruses", "bacterioviruses" depending on whether they infect bacteria, or "archaeoviruses" in the case of archaea.

    For the sake of convenience and clarity, only the term "phages" will be used in this bibliography.

    1.1 The role of phages in fundamental research

    Although observed two years earlier by Frederick Twort without understanding their true nature, the first to clearly identify phages for what they really...

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