title: A proposed new bacteriophage subfamily: "Jerseyvirinae".
abstract: Based on morphology and comparative nucleotide and protein sequence analysis, a new subfamily of the family Siphoviridae is proposed, named "Jerseyvirinae" and consisting of three genera, "Jerseylikevirus", "Sp3unalikevirus" and "K1glikevirus". To date, this subfamily consists of 18 phages for which the genomes have been sequenced. Salmonella phages Jersey, vB_SenS_AG11, vB_SenS-Ent1, vB_SenS-Ent2, vB_SenS-Ent3, FSL SP-101, SETP3, SETP7, SETP13, SE2, SS3e and wksl3 form the proposed genus "Jerseylikevirus". The proposed genus "K1glikevirus" consists of Escherichia phages K1G, K1H, K1ind1, K1ind2 and K1ind3. The proposed genus "Sp3unalikevirus" contains one member so far. Jersey-like phages appear to be widely distributed, as the above phages were isolated in the UK, Canada, the USA and South Korea between 1970 and the present day. The distinguishing features of this subfamily include a distinct siphovirus morphotype, genomes of 40.7-43.6 kb (49.6-51.4 mol % G+C), a syntenic genome organisation, and a high degree of nucleotide sequence identity and shared proteins. All known members of the proposed subfamily are strictly lytic.
authors: Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada, hanany@alumni.uoguelph.ca.
authors: Hany
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authors: Anany
authors: Andrea I Moreno
authors: AI
authors: Switt
authors: Niall
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authors: De Lappe
authors: Hans-Wolfgang
authors: HW
authors: Ackermann
authors: Darren M
authors: DM
authors: Reynolds
authors: Andrew M
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authors: Kropinski
authors: Martin
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authors: Wiedmann
authors: Mansel W
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authors: Griffiths
authors: Denise
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authors: Tremblay
authors: Sylvain
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authors: Moineau
authors: John H E
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authors: Nash
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authors: Turner
mesh_terms: D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000821:virology; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012475:Salmonella / Q000821:virology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D017385:Sequence Homology; D017906:Siphoviridae / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification