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Repeaterator: A Tool For Visualizing Dna Repeat Motifs In Actinobacteriophage Genomes, Grant A. Rybnicky

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

Horizontal gene transfer plays a large role in microbial genetic diversity. Bacteriophages can mediate diversity within their hosts through transduction, the uptake and dispersal of microbial host DNA between bacterial hosts. However, bacteriophages themselves experience horizontal gene transfer through mobile genetic elements and recombination. Unlike their hosts, bacteriophages cannot easily be mapped onto a phylogenic tree as they do not all possess a common trait like the 16s RNA gene. However, their genomes are typically small enough to be analyzed usingThere are tools to compare bacteriophages such as Gepard and Phamerator that compare nucleotide identity across bacteriophage entire genomes. However, …