Krylov V N, Dela Cruz D M, Hertveldt K, Ackermann H-W
State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia.
Arch Virol. 2007;152(10):1955-9. doi: 10.1007/s00705-007-1037-7. Epub 2007 Aug 7.
The proposed phiKZ genus of myoviruses has 21 members. Phages are virulent, lyse Pseudomonas bacteria, and are characterized by very large heads and correspondingly high DNA contents. The genome of the type virus, phiKZ, has 306 ORFs and over 280 kbp and is the second-largest phage genome known. The phiKZ genus has very few relationships to other phages and includes three species and one possible species.
所提议的肌病毒科phiKZ属有21个成员。噬菌体具有毒性，能裂解假单胞菌属细菌，其特征是头部非常大且相应地含有高含量的DNA。模式病毒phiKZ的基因组有306个开放阅读框，超过280千碱基对，是已知的第二大噬菌体基因组。phiKZ属与其他噬菌体的关系极少，包括三个种和一个可能的种。
