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The Myoviridae are a family of bacteriophages, including the following genera:

• Genus T4-like viruses; type species: Enterobacteria phage T4, others include Enterobacteria phage T2
• Genus P1-like viruses; type species: Enterobacteria phage P1
• Genus P2-like viruses; type species: Enterobacteria phage P2
• Genus Mu-like viruses; type species: Enterobacteria phage Mu
• Genus SPO1-like viruses; type species: Bacillus phage SPO1
• Genus φH-like viruses; type species: Halobacterium virus φH

External links

• Viralzone: Myoviridae

From Wikispecies

Taxonavigation

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Regnum: Virus
Phylum: not divided
Classis: not divided
Ordo: Caudovirales
Familia: Myoviridae
Genera: T4-like viruses - P1-like viruses - P2-like viruses - Mu-like viruses - SPO1-like viruses - ϕH-like viruses

Name

Myoviridae

References

• Ackermann, H. W. and Krisch, H. M. 1997: A catalogue of T4-type bacteriophages. Arch. Virol., 142: 2329-2345.
• Karam, J. D. (ed. in chief) 1994: Molecular Biology of Bacteriophage T4. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology.
• Miller, E., Kutter, E., Mosig, G., Arisaka, F., Kunisawa, T. and Rueger, W. 2003: Bacteriophage T4. Microbiol. Molec. Biol. Rev., 67: 86-156.
• Morgan, G., Hatfull, G., Casjens, S. and Hendrix, R. 2002: Bacteriophage Mu genome sequence: analysis and comparison with Mu-like prophages in Haemoflus, Neisseria and Deinococcus. J. Mol. Biol., 317: 337-359.

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