This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 39770009 and 39925001);the fund for Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KSCX2-3-01-02).
The temperate virus SSV1 from the hyper-thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus shibatae provides a useful model system for the study of archaeal DNA replication. Southern hybridization showed that SSV1 existed primarily as ...