Causes for the intriguing presence of tRNAs in phages

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

Distribution of the frequencies of codon usage in virulent phage genomes (top) and temperate phage genomes (bottom). Light-gray filled bars, the distribution of codon frequencies, for all codons; black empty histogram bars, the distribution of codon frequencies, restricted to codons matching a tRNA on the considered phage genome. Note the difference between the distributions in both the virulent and the temperate case.

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  1. Genome Res. 17: 1486-1495

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