Enterobacteria phage T6 | |
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Virus classification | |
Group: | Group I (dsDNA) |
Order: | Caudovirales |
Family: | Myoviridae |
Genus: | T4-like viruses |
Species: | Enterobacteria phage T6 |
Enterobacteria phage 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 the other T-even bacteriophages: Enterobacteria phage T4 and Enterobacteria phage T2.