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Viruses > Bacteriophages > Coliphages > Bacteriophage mu
Viruses > Bacteriophages > Caudovirales > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage mu
Viruses > DNA Viruses > Caudovirales > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage mu
Viruses > Archaeal Viruses > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage mu

Preferred term

Bacteriophage mu  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coliphage mu
  • Enterobacteria phage Mu
  • mu Phage
  • mu Phages
  • Phage mu

Scope note

  • A temperate coliphage, in the genus Mu-like viruses, family MYOVIRIDAE, composed of a linear, double-stranded molecule of DNA, which is able to insert itself randomly at any point on the host chromosome. It frequently causes a mutation by interrupting the continuity of the bacterial OPERON at the site of insertion.

History note

  • 93; was PHAGE MU 1990-92; BACTERIOPHAGE MU was see PHAGE MU 1990-92, was see PHAGE MU 1 1980-89

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010583

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