Family: Inoviridae
Genus: Scuticavirus
Distinguishing features
Stenotrophomonas phage SMA6 is isolated from a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain Khak84, and has a genome of 7,648 bases. The genome encodes 11 proteins and can be integrated into the host genome (Petrova et al., 2014).
Virion
See discussion under family description.
Genome organisation and replication
See discussion under family description.
Biology
Members of the genus infect Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
Species demarcation criteria
There is only one species in the genus. Members of additional species will be >5% different in the DNA sequence of their genomes as assessed using the BLASTn algorithm.