… because it relies on losing common restriction sites. This strategy fails if avoidance is imperfect (e.g., look at T3 that uniquely has some EcoRV sites, data in last tweet from our BASEL paper). Still seems to be a common thing among phages. 👇📰 8/14 htt
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Avoidance of recognition sites of restriction-modification systems is a widespread but not universal anti-restriction strategy of prokaryotic viruses https://t.co/1ZAfxRQi32 #bmcgenomics
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Avoidance of recognition sites of restriction-modification systems is a widespread but not universal anti-restriction strategy of prokaryotic viruses https://t.co/hkRf7387lh #bmcgenomics