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The presence of short homologous DNA segments along the genomes of the temperate phage mv4 and the virulent phages LL-H, LL-K and JCL1032 ofLactobacillus delbrueckii was demonstrated with Southern hybridizations. One of these segments, the 2817 nt MIS element of phage mv4, was further characterized by nucleotide sequence analysis and by superinfection immunity studies.
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Alatossava, T., Forsman, P. & Ritzenthaler, P. Genome homology and superinfection immunity between temperate and virulentLactobacillus delbrueckii bacteriophages. Archives of Virology 140, 2261–2268 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01323245
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