FREQUENCY OF MORPHOLOGICAL PHAGE DESCRIPTIONS

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ACKERMANN, HW
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[1] Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University
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10.1007/BF01309802
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Bacteriophages are listed by morphotypes and host genera. At least 4.007 phages, belonging to 13 virus families, have been described since 1960. About 3,850 phages (96%) are tailed and 154 phages (4%) are cubic, filamentous, or pleomorphic. Siphoviridae or phages with long noncontractile tails constitute 60% of tailed phages. Phages are found in over 100 bacterial genera including archaebacteria and rickettsiae. Their distribution is very uneven and probably reflects the evolutionary history of bacteria.
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