Escherichia virus Wphi

Escherichia virus Wphi is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus Peduovirus.[1][2]

Escherichia virus Wphi
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Duplodnaviria
Kingdom: Heunggongvirae
Phylum: Uroviricota
Class: Caudoviricetes
Family: Peduoviridae
Genus: Peduovirus
Species:
Escherichia virus Wphi

As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Escherichia virus Wphi is a dsDNA viruses. All the members of family Myoviridae share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacterium, as Escherichia virus Wphi is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.[3]

References

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  1. ^ International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (2011). "Master Species List of 2011, version 2". Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  2. ^ Adams, MJ; Carstens, EB (2012). "Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2012)". Archives of Virology. 157 (7): 1411–22. doi:10.1007/s00705-012-1299-6. PMC 7086667. PMID 22481600.
  3. ^ Baltimore, D (1971). "Expression of animal virus genomes". Bacteriological Reviews. 35 (3): 235–41. doi:10.1128/br.35.3.235-241.1971. PMC 378387. PMID 4329869.