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Physical and Chemical Properties of Two New Small Bacteriophages

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IN recent years, several investigators have reported new bacteriophages which have a molecular weight about 100 times less than the classical T-series of phages1,2. Those small phages which have been physically characterized are roughly spherical and have a molecular weight of 4–6 × 106, of which 20–30 per cent is nucleic acid. The nucleic acid is either single-stranded DNA3 or RNA2.

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    D. A. MARVIN

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MARVIN, D., HOFFMANN-BERLING, H. Physical and Chemical Properties of Two New Small Bacteriophages. Nature 197, 517–518 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197517b0

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