Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectiology, Faculty of Medicine, Félix d'Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
Arch Virol. 2012 Oct;157(10):1843-9. doi: 10.1007/s00705-012-1383-y. Epub 2012 Jul 3.
This review summarizes the electron microscopical descriptions of prokaryote viruses. Since 1959, nearly 6300 prokaryote viruses have been described morphologically, including 6196 bacterial and 88 archaeal viruses. As in previous counts, the vast majority (96.3 %) are tailed, and only 230 (3.7 %) are polyhedral, filamentous, or pleomorphic. The family Siphoviridae, whose members are characterized by long, noncontractile tails, is by far the largest family (over 3600 descriptions, or 57.3 %). Prokaryote viruses are found in members of 12 bacterial and archaeal phyla. Archaeal viruses belong to 15 families or groups of family level and infect members of 16 archaeal genera, nearly exclusively hyperthermophiles or extreme halophiles. Tailed archaeal viruses are found in the Euryarchaeota only, whereas most filamentous and pleomorphic archaeal viruses occur in the Crenarchaeota. Bacterial viruses belong to 10 families and infect members of 179 bacterial genera, mostly members of the Firmicutes and γ-proteobacteria.
这篇综述总结了原核生物病毒的电子显微镜描述。自 1959 年以来，已经描述了近 6300 种原核生物病毒，包括 6196 种细菌病毒和 88 种古菌病毒。与之前的计数一样，绝大多数（96.3%）是有尾的，只有 230 种（3.7%）是多面体、丝状或多形的。尾噬菌体科的成员以长而不可收缩的尾巴为特征，是迄今为止最大的科（超过 3600 种描述，占 57.3%）。原核生物病毒存在于 12 个细菌和古菌门的成员中。古菌病毒属于 15 个科或科级群，感染 16 个古菌属的成员，几乎都是高温或极端嗜盐菌。有尾的古菌病毒仅存在于广古菌中，而大多数丝状和多形的古菌病毒存在于泉古菌中。细菌病毒属于 10 个科，感染 179 个细菌属的成员，主要是厚壁菌门和γ-变形菌门的成员。
