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- noun Plural form of
bacteriophage .
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Examples
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Mobile genetic elements have also been found in bacteriophages, i.e., viruses that infect bacteria.
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Delbrück became interested in bacteriophages and soon thereafter so did Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 - Presentation Speech 1972
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Viruses like the one Emilia found - which is named Czyszczon1 - are called bacteriophages, and researches are excited about their medical potential.
The Seattle Times 2011
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1925: The faculty for producing bacteriophages is incorporated in the heredity of the lysogenic bacteria.
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They are typically DNA-containing viruses and, if they infect bacteria, are called bacteriophages or “phages” for short.
Marine viruses 2007
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These Australian authors noted that only 0.1 percent of the bacteria contain bacteriophages.
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The charting of the fundamental processes in the life cycle of the bacteriophages was a necessary condition for attempts to define them in chemical terms, on the molecular level.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 - Presentation Speech 1972
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In the case of viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, his team has shown that when a tail on the virus docks with a receptor on the outside of a bacterial cell, it opens a portal that allows the viral DNA to spew out.
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Specific bacterial proteins recognise infectious viruses, called bacteriophages, by detecting foreign DNA.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Specific bacterial proteins recognise infectious viruses, called bacteriophages, by detecting foreign DNA.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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