Enterobacteria phage T6

Enterobacteria phage T6
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA)
Order: Caudovirales
Family: Myoviridae
Genus: T4-like viruses
Species: Enterobacteria phage T6

T6 is a bacteriophage that infects Escherichia coli bacteria. It was one bacteriophage that was used as a model system in the 1950s in exploring the methods viruses replicate, along with Enterobacteria phage T4 and Enterobacteria phage T2.[1]

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