Genus: Baoshanvirus

ICTV Report

Distinguishing features

Members of this genus infect Staphylococcus sp. The type species is Staphylococcus virus BS2. The genome of the exemplar isolate of the type species is 149 kbp, with a total of 210 predicted gene coding sequences and 1 encoded tRNA. 

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organisation and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Biology

Members of the genus infect Staphylococcus sp. mainly S. aureus. 

Derivation of names

Baoshanvirus: derived from the place of origin of the type isolate, the Chinese district Boashan. 

Species demarcation criteria

Members of the same species are more than 95% identical in genome nucleotide sequence, including the terminal repeat region. Phages with genomes that differ by more than 5%  are assigned to different species.