The genome sequence of the classic model halovirus phiH1 has just been published as part of a special thematic issue of Genes. Get the paper here.  There is more to this story (click ‘read more’).

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This study describes the recovery of new Haloquadratum waslbyi isolates and focuses on a family of small plasmids that they commonly carry, which appear to be either haloviruses or at least very closely related to haloviruses. Go to the paper here. Read more about this project (click ‘read more’). Read more “PL6-like plasmids of Haloquadratum“