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SEVERAL Escherichia coli viruses contain single stranded circular DNA (for review see ref. 1). Two types have been found: spherical viruses such as φX174, and filamentous viruses such as fd. The base composition of the DNA from viruses of both types is similar with an unusually high content of thymine (Table 1). The single stranded DNA of minute virus of mice (MVM) also has about one-third thymine (L. V. Crawford, quoted in ref. 1).
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DENHARDT, D., MARVIN, D. Altered Coding in Single Stranded DNA Viruses?. Nature 221, 769–770 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221769a0
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