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Felixounavirus
''Felixounavirus'' (synonyms: ''FelixO1likevirus'', and ''Felixounalikevirus'') is a genus of viruses in the order ''Caudovirales'', in the family ''Myoviridae''. Bacteria serve as natural hosts, with transmission achieved through passive diffusion. There are currently 16 species in this genus, including the type species ''Salmonella virus FelixO1''. Taxonomy The following species are recognized: * ''Escherichia virus Alf5'' * ''Escherichia virus AYO145A'' * ''Escherichia virus EC6'' * ''Escherichia virus HY02'' * ''Escherichia virus JH2'' * ''Escherichia virus TP1'' * ''Escherichia virus VpaE1'' * ''Escherichia virus wV8'' * ''Salmonella virus BPS15Q2'' * ''Salmonella virus BPS17L1'' * ''Salmonella virus BPS17W1'' * ''Salmonella virus FelixO1'' * ''Salmonella virus Mushroom'' * ''Salmonella virus Si3'' * ''Salmonella virus SP116'' * ''Salmonella virus UAB87'' Structure Viruses in Felixounavirus are non-enveloped, with head-tail geometries. The diameter is around 73 nm. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viruses
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898,Dimmock p. 4 more than 9,000 virus species have been described in detail of the millions of types of viruses in the environment. Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. The study of viruses is known as virology, a subspeciality of microbiology. When infected, a host cell is often forced to rapidly produce thousands of copies of the original virus. When not inside an infected cell or in the process of infecting a cell, viruses exist in the form of independent particles, or ''virions'', consisting of (i) the genetic material, i.e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
