TWiM explains how spindle-shaped Archaeal viruses evolved from rod-shaped ancestors to package a larger genome, and transcriptional recording by CRISPR acquisition from RNA.
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- From rods to spindles (Cell)
- Spindle-shaped virus movie (Cell)
- Bacteria that record (Science)
- Transcriptional recording with CRISPR (Nature)
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