Inovirus [SEP] parent taxon
Inovirus
Inovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Inoviridae. Gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (specifically "Enterobacteriaceae", "Pseudomonadaceae", "Spirillaceae", "Xanthomonadaceae", "Clostridium" and "Propionibacterium") serve as natural hosts. There are currently 36 species in this genus including the type species Enterobacteria phage M13. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek word "Ίνα" meaning 'fibre'.
Taxonomy.
Group: ssDNA
Virology.
Inovirus
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of