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A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy (2021)
Journal Article

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago. Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have seen significant changes to phage taxonomy. Here, we reflect on the state... Read More about A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy.

From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses (2020)
Journal Article

Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group. In recent yea... Read More about From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses.

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee (2020)
Journal Article

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV’s Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order, 10 families, 22 subfamilies, 424 genera and 964 species. Some of our co... Read More about Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, sca... Read More about Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks.

661W photoreceptor cell line as a cell model for studying retinal ciliopathies (2019)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2019 Wheway, Nazlamova, Turner and Cross. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the ori... Read More about 661W photoreceptor cell line as a cell model for studying retinal ciliopathies.

Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’ (2018)
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a phytopathogen of economic importance as it is the causative agent of potato blackleg and soft rot. Here we describe the Pectobacterium phage vB_PatP_CB5 (abbre... Read More about Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’.

The sequence of two bacteriophages with hypermodified bases reveals novel phage-host interactions (2018)
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Bacteriophages SP-15 and ΦW-14 are members of the Myoviridae infecting Bacillus subtilis and Delftia (formerly Pseudomonas) acidovorans, respectively. What links them is that in both cases, ap... Read More about The sequence of two bacteriophages with hypermodified bases reveals novel phage-host interactions.

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee (2018)
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The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report, the committee composition has changed, and a large number of taxono... Read More about Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

Comparative analysis of 37 Acinetobacter bacteriophages (2017)
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© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Members of the genus Acinetobacter are ubiquitous in the environment and the multipledrug resistant species A. baumannii is of significant clinical concern. This clinical relevance is currentl... Read More about Comparative analysis of 37 Acinetobacter bacteriophages.

Characterisation and genome sequence of the lytic Acinetobacter baumannii bacteriophage vB-AbaS-Loki (2017)
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© 2017 Turner et al.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Characterisation and genome sequence of the lytic Acinetobacter baumannii bacteriophage vB-AbaS-Loki.