Kuravirus

Kuravirus is a genus of viruses within the Podoviridae family. This genus was established based on a combination of morphological features and genome organization.

Kuravirus
Virus classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Duplodnaviria
Kingdom: Heunggongvirae
Phylum: Uroviricota
Class: Caudoviricetes
Order: Caudovirales
Family: Podoviridae
Genus: Kuravirus
Type species
Escherichia virus phiEco32[1]
Synonyms

Phieco32-like viruses
Phieco32likevirus
Phieco32virus[2]

Taxonomy

The following species are recognized as of 2019:[3]

  • Escherichia virus 172-1
  • Escherichia virus ECB2
  • Escherichia virus NJ01
  • Escherichia virus phiEco32
  • Escherichia virus Septima11
  • Escherichia virus SU10

Virology

The type species, Escherichia virus phiEco32, has a relatively rare morphology, a C3 morphotype, with an elongated head (145 x 44 nm) and a short tail (13 nm) with short kinked tail fibers.

These phages are temperate and are capable of generalized transduction with lysogenic conversion, and can have very high burst sizes.

References
  1. "Kuravirus". Viralzone. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. "ICTV Taxonomy history: Kuravirus". ICTV. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. "Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release". talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 4 May 2020.


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