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. 1981 Feb;37(2):832–835. doi: 10.1128/jvi.37.2.832-835.1981

Maturation of bacteriophage SPPI DNA: limited precision in the sizing of mature bacteriophage genomes.

G O Humphreys, T A Trautner
PMCID: PMC171072  PMID: 6783769

Abstract

Maturation of bacteriophage SPPI is imprecise. Although terminally redundant and circularly permuted molecules were always formed, individual molecules varied by more than 200 base pairs from each other.

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