A stockpile of antiviral defences

Sébastien Levesque and Sylvain Moineau ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 556, issue 7701, 318-319

Abstract: The full list of weapons used by bacteria against viruses is not known. A computational approach has uncovered nine previously unidentified antiviral systems, encoded by genes near known defence genes in bacterial genomes.

Keywords: Microbiology; Virology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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