Illustration from Scientific Research

For each bacteriophage (phage) genus, a genome map is provided for the ancestral phage (FJK, FIM, or MK/JS) with the relevant functional annotations highlighted on top. Each coloured arrow represents a coding sequence with white encoding hypothetical proteins, blue (DNA) metabolism-associated proteins, green virion proteins, and red genome packaging or cell lysis proteins. The genomic changes in the evolved phages after round 15 and round 30 are displayed below each ancestral phage genome, with deletions being shown as a delta symbol and the individual SNPs annotated. For the Pakpunavirus members, a BLAST comparison between both ancestral phages is also shown.

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