Parent categories	5. Prophages and mobile genetic elements 5.1. Prophages
Neighbouring categories	5.1.1. PBSX prophage 5.1.2. SPß prophage 5.1.3. Skin element 5.1.4. Prophage 1 5.1.5. Prophage 3 5.1.6. Phage-related functions
Related categories	SknR regulon
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Important note

In 168, the Skin element disrupts the sigK gene
A strain devoid of the Skin element (1A884) is available at the BGSC, PubMed
A strain devoid of PBSX prophage , SP-beta prophage and the Skin element (TF8A) as well as a strain devoid of all six prophages of the 168 genome (D6) is available in Jan Maarten van Dijl's lab PubMed

Skin element