Think the jury might be out on this one... A quick snip from WikiDictionary...
"The plural word phages refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd
ed., 1984
Tony.
another singular/plural grump:
Recently we can read: "phage are".
Phage is singular, the plural is phages (and this does not have that much to do with latin or greek).
more reading:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109450/
Quoting Paul Emsley:
The PDBe page for 3k78 says:
"The experimental data has been deposited"
the data cif file says:
"data is under question"
Grump.
Is it to late to refer to data as if there were more than one of them?
Anyway, the data mtz file is here if you want to refine with it:
http://lmb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/emsley/data/r3k78sf.mtz
Paul.
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