Talk:Filamentous bacteriophage

Replaced Article

Because the previous information was both too technical and unverifiable, I decided to completely remove and replace the article. Please discuss if you have any kind of issue.

• Unverifiable because there were no references
• Unverifiable because the only links were to other wiki sites
• Unverifiable because the user who originally added the information User:DrMicro has been indefinitely blocked and cannot be reached

Again, if you have any objection to my edit, please discuss Bervin61 (talk) 18:07, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Image: Representation of the filamentous phage M13.

According to 2020's Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses, §Tubulavirales of ICTV's Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, citation: "The phages belonging to the rearranged family Inoviridae infect Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and virions appear as long and flexible filaments. The members of the new family Plectroviridae, previously classified as members of the family Inoviridae, infect cell-wall-less bacteria and exhibit the morphology of rigid rods."
this image appears more likely to show a member of rod-shaped Plectroviridae, than to truely filamentous Inoviridae. It might be replacesd by File:Inoviridae_virion.jpg --Ernsts (talk) 09:18, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

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Good suggestion, I have made the change in image here and in Ff phages.

I also cited the reference to Pf4 phage that you questioned in your edits in 15 February (Secor et al, 2000) ref 16, which puts Pf4 in family Inoviridae, but not yet in any genus.

Finally, we are likely to turn off many readers by the details of the Taxonomy section. Could we move that section to the end, below History?

Androidpar (talk) 09:12, 30 March 2021 (UTC)