| genomic characterization of mycobacteriophage giles: evidence for phage acquisition of host dna by illegitimate recombination. | a characteristic feature of bacteriophage genomes is that they are architecturally mosaic, with each individual genome representing a unique assemblage of individual exchangeable modules. plausible mechanisms for generating mosaicism include homologous recombination at shared boundary sequences of module junctions, illegitimate recombination in a non-sequence-directed process, and site-specific recombination. analysis of the novel mycobacteriophage giles genome not only extends our current persp ... | 2008 | 18178732 |