Ongoing shuffling of protein fragments diversifies core viral functions linked to interactions with bacterial hosts
B. Smug, K. Szczepaniak, E. P. C. Rocha, S. Dunin-Horkawicz, R. J. Mostowy
The paper quantifies domain mosaicism in phage proteins to show how protein modularity contributes to functional diversity and diversification across bacterial hosts.
bioRxiv · Dec 27, 2022Evolutionary Biology