The newly characterized colicin Y provides evidence of positive selection in pore-former colicin diversification

During the time this manuscript was being prepared for publication, our colleague James V. Neel passed away. The other authors wish to dedicate this work to his memory.

The GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AF197335.

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