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

↑ 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. PMC 3133016. PMID 21317336.

External links

European Nucleotide Archive: Bacillus phage G

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[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. PMC 3133016. PMID 21317336.