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02. Caudovirales

References (VIIIth ICTV Report)

Ackermann, H.-W. (1996). Frequency of morphological phage descriptions in 1995. Arch. Virol., 141, 209-218.

Ackermann, H.-W. (1998). Tailed bacteriophages: the order Caudovirales. Adv. Virus Res., 51, 101-168.

Ackermann, H.-W. and DuBow, M.S. (eds) (1987). Viruses of Prokaryotes, Vol. I and II. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Ackermann, H.-W., DuBow, M.S., Jarvis, A.W., Jones, L.A., Krylov, V.N., Maniloff, J., Rocourt, J., Safferman, R.S., Schneider, J., Seldin, L., Sozzi, T., Stewart, P.R., Werquin, M. and Wüsche, L. (1992). The species concept and its application to tailed phages. Arch. Virol., 124, 69-82.

Ackermann, H.-W., Elzanowski, A., Fobo, G. and Stewart, G. (1995). Relationships of tailed phages: a survey of protein sequence identity. Arch. Virol., 140, 1871-1884.

Black, L.W. (1989). DNA packaging in dsDNA bacteriophages. Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 43, 267-292.

Botstein, D. and Herskowitz, I. (1974). Properties of hybrids between Salmonella phage P22 and coliphage lambda. Nature, 251, 584-586.

Braithwaite, D.K. and Ito, J. (1993). Compilation, alignment and phylogenetic relationships of DNA polymerases. Nucl. Acids Res., 21, 787-802.

Calendar, R. (ed) (1988). The Bacteriophages, Vol. 1 and 2. Plenum Press, New York.

Canchaya, C., Proux, C., Fournous, G., Bruttin, A. and Brussow, H. (2003). Prophage Genomics. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 67, 238-276.

Casjens, S. (2003). Prophages in sequenced bacterial genomes: what have we learned so far? Molec. Microbiol., 49, 277-300.

Casjens. S., Hatfull, G. and Hendrix, R. (1992). Evolution of dsDNA tailed-bacteriophage genomes. Semin. Virol., 3, 383-397.

Hendrix, R.W. (2002). Bacteriophages: Evolution of the majority. Theor. Pop. Biol., 61, 471-480.

Klaus, S., Krüger, D.H. and Meyer, J. (eds) (1992). Bakterienviren. Gustav, Fischer, Jena-Stuttgart.

Maniloff, J. and Ackermann, H.-W. (1998). Taxonomy of bacterial viruses: establishment of tailed virus genera and the order Caudovirales. Arch. Virol., 143, 2051-2063.

Lawrence, J.G., Hatfull, G.F. and Hendrix, R.W. (2002). Imbroglios of viral taxonomy: Genetic exchange and failings of phenetic approaches. J. Bacteriol., 184, 4891-4905.

Susskind, M.M. and Botstein, D. (1978). Molecular genetics of bacteriophage P22. Microbial. Rev., 42, 385- 413.

Contributed for the VIIIth ICTV Report by

Hendrix, R.W. and Casjens, S.R.


Addtional References

Species List from the 8th ICTV Report
ICTVdB taxon description
ICTVdB Picture Gallery

References to sequence databases at GenBank and PubMed Central:
PubMed Central References; nucleotide sequences; complete genomes




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