ASM Division M: Phage photo index

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Newsletters and ruminations.

Meetings & events

Information about the ASM General Meeting, and other meetings of interest.

Resources for teachers

Instructions on assembling icosahedra, links to websites about teaching, books, and more.

Phage facts & portraits

Information about and micrographs, diagrams, or other images of specific phages.

Links

Links to other sites on the World Wide Web that are primarily about bacteriophages or generally about viruses.

Oddments

The hot topics of the day, and information about phage books, phage art, and phage history.

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Created 1.25.98, revised 9.10.05.

Please send corrections to Eric Miller eric_miller@ncsu.edu

Thanks to: Susan Godfrey ssg1@pitt.edu and
Roger Hendrix rhx@pitt.edu for the original design of these pages

Division M: Index of phage pages
For convenience, here phages are indexed by family, according to the taxonomic method that defines family by genome type and virion morphology. Links are provided in the index to one or more pages of Phage Factsheets, with links or references to provide access to methods, to genomic information, and to the literature, and also to micrographs and other types of images as available. We chose examples that are of historical interest or have some interesting application.
Please see our note on Greek letters in phage names

dsDNA tailed phages dsDNA phages with contractile tails — Myoviridae T4 Facts, see also (1) Portraits Mu Facts, see also (1) Portraits P1 Facts Portraits P2 & P4 Facts Portraits, and see also (1) dsDNA phages with long flexible tails — Siphoviridae Facts Portraits, and see (1) HK97 Facts Portraits Mycobacteriophage L5 Facts Portraits C31 Facts Portraits	dsDNA tailed phages (cont.) dsDNA phages with stubby tails — Podoviridae P22 Facts, see also (1), (2) Portraits T7 Facts, see also (1) Portraits, see also (1) 29 Facts Portraits N4 Facts Portraits Other dsDNA phages dsDNA tail-less (usually) phages two-layered icosahedral nucleocapsid — Tectiviridae PRD1 Facts Portraits dsDNA phage with lemon-shaped or oval nucleocapsid and stubby tail — Fuselloviridae SSV-1 Facts Portraits	ssDNA phages ssDNA phages with icosahedral heads — Microviridae X174 Facts Portraits, and see also (1) ssDNA filamentous phages — Inoviridae fd Facts Portraits M13 Facts Portraits RNA phages Positive-stranded ssRNA phages with tail-less heads — Leviviridae MS2 Facts Portraits, and see also (1) dsRNA phages with segmented genomes — Cystoviridae 6 Facts Portraits
Visit the ICTV pages to learn about more phages.