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.

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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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