bacteriophage

For a subset of these viruses, including many tailed 'bacteriophages' and the herpes viruses, the concatemers are cut at specific sites to generate unit-length virion chromosomes.

However, another promising approach is to use bacterial viruses knows as 'bacteriophages' to produce vaccines very rapidly and cheaply.

The genome contains four sections inserted by 'bacteriophages' , viruses that infect bacteria and splice their genes into the bacterial DNA.

Suitable vectors are the DNAs of bacterial viruses or 'bacteriophages' which naturally infect bacteria and replicate within them.

Those viruses, called 'bacteriophages' , specifically infect bacteria, capture some of their genes, and transfer the genes from one microbe to the next.