Taxon Details

Taxon name: Hodgkinviridae

to honour Jonathan Alan Hodgkin, a British biochemist whose group characterised the first bacteriophage to be reported for the coryneform genus Microbacterium; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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