Students Break New Ground in Understanding Genetic Diversity of Bacteriophages
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 10:51
in Biology & Nature
Over the last seven years, thousands of undergraduate students have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of bacteria-infecting viruses, known as bacteriophages. Those genomes are now the focal point of a new study that examined the genetic diversity of 627 phages isolated from a single species of bacteria. The study shows a continuum of genetic diversity rather than discrete groups within the population of bacteriophages studied.