Packaging of Dinoroseobacter shibae DNA into Gene Transfer Agent Particles Is Not Random

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Bacteriophage SPP1 pac Cleavage: A Precise Cut without Sequence Specificity Requirement

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The Rhodobacter capsulatus gene transfer agent is induced by nutrient depletion and the RNAP omega subunit

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The Composite 259-kb Plasmid of Martelella mediterranea DSM 17316T–A Natural Replicon with Functional RepABC Modules from Rhodobacteraceae and Rhizobiaceae

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The Distribution, Evolution, and Roles of Gene Transfer Agents in Prokaryotic Genetic Exchange

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Gene Transfer Agent Promotes Evolvability within the Fittest Subpopulation of a Bacterial Pathogen

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Why prokaryotes have pangenomes

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Bacterial chromatin: converging views at different scales

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Functional and Evolutionary Characterization of a Gene Transfer Agent’s Multilocus “Genome”

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Exclusion of small terminase mediated DNA threading models for genome packaging in bacteriophage T4

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Gene Flow Across Genus Barriers – Conjugation of Dinoroseobacter shibae’s 191-kb Killer Plasmid into Phaeobacter inhibens and AHL-mediated Expression of Type IV Secretion Systems

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Continuous Allosteric Regulation of a Viral Packaging Motor by a Sensor that Detects the Density and Conformation of Packaged DNA

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Homologues of Genetic Transformation DNA Import Genes Are Required for Rhodobacter capsulatus Gene Transfer Agent Recipient Capability Regulated by the Response Regulator CtrA

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Old, new, and widely true: The bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging mechanism

(2015) Lindsay W. Black   VIROLOGY

The CtrA phosphorelay integrates differentiation and communication in the marine alphaproteobacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae

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You are what you talk: quorum sensing induces individual morphologies and cell division modes in Dinoroseobacter shibae

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High-Resolution Mapping of the Spatial Organization of a Bacterial Chromosome

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Headful DNA packaging: Bacteriophage SPP1 as a model system

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Regulatory systems controlling motility and gene transfer agent production and release in Rhodobacter capsulatus

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DNA packaging bias and differential expression of gene transfer agent genes within a population during production and release of the Rhodobacter capsulatus gene transfer agent, RcGTA

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Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

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One for All or All for One: Heterogeneous Expression and Host Cell Lysis Are Key to Gene Transfer Agent Activity in Rhodobacter capsulatus

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The DNA-packaging nanomotor of tailed bacteriophages

(2011) Sherwood R. Casjens   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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Complete genome sequence of a marine roseophage provides evidence into the evolution of gene transfer agents in alphaproteobacteria

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Single-molecule studies of viral DNA packaging

(2011) Douglas E Smith   Current Opinion in Virology

High diversity of Rhodobacterales in the subarctic North Atlantic Ocean and gene transfer agent protein expression in isolated strains

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High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

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Introducing the bacterial ‘chromid’: not a chromosome, not a plasmid

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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

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The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea

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Run-Off Replication of Host-Adaptability Genes Is Associated with Gene Transfer Agents in the Genome of Mouse-Infecting Bartonella grahamii

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Occurrence and Expression of Gene Transfer Agent Genes in Marine Bacterioplankton

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A Polymeric Protein Anchors the Chromosomal Origin/ParB Complex at a Bacterial Cell Pole

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