Resources: Cystoviridae
Resources: Cystoviridae
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:
Bamford, D. H., Palva, E. T. & Lounatmaa, K. (1976). Ultrastructure and life cycle of the lipid-containing bacteriophage φ6. J Gen Virol 32, 249-259. [PubMed]
Gottlieb, P., Wei, H., Potgieter, C. & Toporovsky, I. (2002). Characterization of φ12, a bacteriophage related to φ6: nucleotide sequence of the small and middle double-stranded RNA. Virology 293, 118-124. [PubMed]
Minna M. Poranen*
Cystoviridae Study Group Chair
Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
University of Helsinki
P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
E-mail: minna.poranen@helsinki.fi
Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.
Minna M. Poranen and Sari Mäntynen
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Poranen et al., (2017):
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Cystoviridae, Journal of General Virology, 98: 2423–2424.