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Viruses > Bacteriophages > Caudovirales > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage T4
Viruses > DNA Viruses > Caudovirales > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage T4
Viruses > Archaeal Viruses > Myoviridae > Bacteriophage T4
Viruses > Bacteriophages > Coliphages > T-Phages > Bacteriophage T4

Preferred term

Bacteriophage T4  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coliphage T4
  • Enterobacteria phage T4
  • Phages, T4
  • Phage T4
  • Phage, T4
  • T4 Phage
  • T4 Phages

Scope note

  • Virulent bacteriophage and type species of the genus T4-like phages, in the family MYOVIRIDAE. It infects E. coli and is the best known of the T-even phages. Its virion contains linear double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant and circularly permuted.

History note

  • 1993; for BACTERIOPHAGE T2 use MYOVIRIDAE 1994-2001

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017122

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