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Twenty-five lactic streptococcal bacteriophages were differentiated by DNA homology into four species. Complete correlation was found between DNA homology groups and morphological characteristics of the phages except that two phage types, which differed in only the presence or absence of a collar, were one species by DNA homology. These findings were supported by serological data and differences in DNA molecular weights of the proposed species. The complete lack of homology between these phage species indicates that they are unlikely to have a recent common phage ancestor and that one morphological type of phage has not been derived by mutation from a phage of another morphological type.
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