NO SPECIES BARRIER. “Because of their prevalence, phages are likely to play an important role in gene transfer in the environment. Although it used to be thought that phages only rarely crossed species boundaries, broad-host-range (BHR) generalized transducing phages that can transfer genes between species and genera have recently been discovered at high frequency in different natural environments.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022