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DNA sequence at the C termini of the overlapping genes A and B in bacteriophage φX174

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Sequence determination of mutants in genes A and B confirms that these constitute another pair of genes in φX174 which are translated from the same DNA sequence using different reading frames.

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Smith, M., Brown, N., Air, G. et al. DNA sequence at the C termini of the overlapping genes A and B in bacteriophage φX174. Nature 265, 702–705 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/265702a0

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