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Bacteriophage T4 has probably been the most intensively investigated intemperate virus, but there are many other viruses that have also been the subject of considerable study. In this chapter, descriptions of selected bacteriophages are presented to illustrate the high degree of genetic diversity available to a bacterial geneticist and to provide comparisons of these phages to each other and to T4. To facilitate these comparisons, the physical properties of each phage discussed in this chapter are summarized in Table 7.1. Yeast viruses are not considered because, like all fungal viruses, they are transmitted only by cell fusion and do not spend any portion of their life cycle in an independent state.
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Birge, E.A. (2000). Genetics of Other Intemperate Bacteriophages. In: Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3258-0_7
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