Taxon Details

History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Demerecviridae; Proposal: 2019.099B.A.v1.Demerecviridae_1fam3subfam6gen; : ; ICTV Report: ; Reference:

to honour Milislav Demerec, a Croatian-American geneticist who pioneered work on bacteriophage, and collaborated in the first isolation of E.coli phage T5; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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