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p.852 left column 2nd paragraph:"DNA is highly compressed inside bacteriophage capsids, and the resulting forces have important effects on the phage life cycle, as revealed in several experiments. One early experiment which shed light on the possible role of the forces associated with packaged DNA is that of Earnshaw and Harrison (primary source), who characterized the tight packaging of DNA in viral capsids by the distance ds between strands (~2.8 nm in full capsids), and by Feiss et al. (1977), who identified limits on the amount of DNA that can be packaged into a ?-capsid." |