Bacillus phage G

Bacillus phage G
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Order: Caudovirales
Family: Myoviridae
Genus: Unassigned
Species: Bacillus phage G

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

  1. 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.

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