Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting Rhodobacter capsulatus and their relatedness to its gene transfer agent RcGTA

• Jackson Rapala,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0501-4615

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• Brenda Miller,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

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• Maximiliano Garcia,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

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• Megan Dolan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

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• Matthew Bockman,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7674-1209

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• Mats Hansson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35B, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0168-9968

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• Daniel A. Russell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Rebecca A. Garlena,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Steven G. Cresawn,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Alexander B. Westbye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Medical Biochemistry, Hormone Laboratory, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• J. Thomas Beatty,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Richard M. Alvey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ralvey@iwu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1514-2744

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• David W. Bollivar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-3408

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