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Nature Reviews Microbiology 7, 4 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrmicro2067

Archaea: Viral exclusion order

Andrew Jermy

Little is known about the interplay between extrachromosomal genetic elements that reside in archaea. In a paper published in Molecular Microbiology, Peng and colleagues have identified a conjugative plasmid resident in Acidianus hospitalis strain W1 that is selectively lost following infection by Acidianus filamentous virus 1 (AFV1).