Bacillus phage MJ-4 | <a href="https://www.phage.ulaval.ca/?pageDemandee=phage&noPhage=164&id=41&L=1" target="_blank">HER 164</a>

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Siphovirus

Priestia megaterium

long non-contractile tail,elongated icosahedral head

Reference	Strain number	Name	History
1	HER 164	Bacillus phage MJ-4	<- J.D. van Elsas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Reference	Realm	Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Species
1	Duplodnaviria	Heunggongvirae	Uroviricota	Caudoviricetes	BLE

Reference	Habitat	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country code	Nagoya restrictions
1	Soil	1978	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	BRA	There are NO known Nagoya protocol restrictions for this strain

Reference	Category	File	Media type	IPR	Caption
1	TEM		jpg	Félix d`Herelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses	Electron micrograph of Bacillus phage MJ-4

Reference	Morphotype	Phage description	Plaque description	Plaque size (mm)
1	Siphovirus	long non-contractile tail,elongated icosahedral head	clear	0.5-1

Reference	Host species	Host strain number
1	Priestia megaterium F	HER 1163

Reference	Host range id	Host range link
1	1114	https://viralhostrangedb.pasteur.cloud/virus/1114

Reference	Medium name	DSM medium number	Temperature (C°)	Agitation
1	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)	535	37	yes

Reference	Propagation medium	DSM medium number	Temperature (C°)	Agitation
1	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)	535	37	yes

Title	Authors
Properties of a new Bacillus megaterium bacteriophage with elongated head	van Elsas, J.D., M.M. Linhares, and E.G.C. Penido

Reference	Title	Catalogue institution
1	Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses	Canadian culture collection of the Laval University

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