The bacteria that prey on animals and plants have their own parasites: a family of viruses, called phages, that infect the microbes by injecting them with long strings of DNA. A new study suggests that the DNA-injection process is more complicated than researchers had previously presumed, happening in fits and starts instead of in a smooth and steady stream.
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