Li Huang*
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources
Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, 100101
China
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College of Life Sciences
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, 100049,
China
E-mail: [email protected]
Since only one genus (Alphaovalivirus) is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Huang et al. (2021)
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Ovaliviridae, Journal of General Virology, 102 (3): 001546
There are only two species in this genus – Baoshanvirus BS1 and Baoshanvirus BS2. Staphylococcus phage phiSA_BS2 (the exemplar isolate of Staphylococcus virus BS2) has a genome of 149 kbp with 210 predicted protein coding sequences and 1 encoded tRNA. Members of the genus infect Staphylococcus aureus. Their infectivity for staphylococci of other species has not been studied.
A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows:
Alemayehu, D., R. P. Ross, O. O'Sullivan, A. Coffey, C. Stanton, G. F. Fitzgerald and O. McAuliffe (2009). Genome of a virulent bacteriophage Lb338-1 that lyses the probiotic Lactobacillus paracasei cheese strain. Gene 448: 29-39. [PubMed]
