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Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak and colleagues at UC San Diego, the group that discovered that certain Pseudomonas phages replicate their DNA inside a phage-encoded nucleus-like structure, have now published that the capsids of these phages traffic along phage-encoded, "treadmilling" tubulin filaments. The "nucleus" rotates as a result of this treadmilling action, which distributes capsids for efficient DNA packaging. Paper | News article | Youtube video | Apply for a job in this lab!