T7 excess information was originally noticed and characterized by Dr. Schneider in 1986. Recently we expanded our information theory analysis to all available genomes of the T7 group, and found that all members of this group have excess information at their promoters. We propose that the promoter excess information can be explained by the takeover ratio, which was defined as the ratio between information contents of the phage SD and the corresponding host SD. A paper about this is in preparation.

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