Species:
Escherichia phage Qbeta
Taxonomy:
Order: Norzivirales
Family: Fiersviridae
Subfamily:
Genus: Qubevirus
Isolate:
Escherichia phage Qbeta
DSM No.:
13768 dsm-13768 dsm13768 dsm 13768
Geographic origin:
country of origin unknown
Date of sampling:
before 11.10.2000
Nagoya Protocol Restrictions:
There are NO known Nagoya protocol restrictions for this strain.
Morphology:
spherical virion with icosahedral symmetry
Plaques description:
large, turbid halo
Image:
Single plaques on agar plate.
Creator: B. Henze, Leibniz Institute DSMZ.
© © Leibniz-Institut DSMZ
Further information:
Male specific. The maturation protein A2 is a major difference of phage Qbeta compared to other ssRNA viruses like MS2.
Used in Expt. 49 in "Sourcebook of Experiments for the Teaching of Microbiology", eds. S.B. Primrose and A.C. Wardlaw, Academic Press (1982).
Host bacterium:
Escherichia coli (Migula 1895) Castellani and Chalmers 1919
DSM 5210We strongly recommend to use only DSM 5210 for propagation.
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