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Phage biology

a mobile element that cannot replicate alone and hijacks a helper phage's machinery to spread.

In phage biology, phage satellite refers to a mobile element that cannot replicate alone and hijacks a helper phage's machinery to spread. This meaning comes from Penadés (2015) in Annual Review of Virology.[1]

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References

Penadés, J. R., & Christie, G. E. (2015). The Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands: A Family of Highly Evolved Molecular Parasites. Annual Review of Virology, 2(1), 181-201. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-virology-031413-085446

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