Bacillus virus G
Appearance
Bacillus phage G | |
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Virus classification | |
Group: | Group I (dsDNA)
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Genus: | Unassigned
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Species: | Bacillus phage G
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Bacillus phage G is a bacteriophage (phage) that infects Bacillus bacteria. The phage has been reported to have the largest genome of all discovered Myoviridae with nearly 700 protein-coding genes.[1]
References
- ^ Kristensen, DM; Cai X; Mushegian A (Apr 2011). "Evolutionarily conserved orthologous families in phages are relatively rare in their prokaryotic hosts". J Bacteriol. 193 (8): 1806–14. doi:10.1128/JB.01311-10. PMID 21317336.