Bcepmulikevirus [SEP] parent taxon
Bcepmulikevirus
Bcepmulikevirus is a genus of viruses in the family "Myoviridae", not assigned to a subfamily. Bacteria serve as the natural host, with transmission achieved through passive diffusion. There are currently two species in this genus, including the type species "Burkholderia phage BcepMu".
Taxonomy.
Species:
Structure.
Bcepmulikeviruses are nonenveloped, with a head and tail. The head has an elongated icosahedral symmetry (T=13, Q=21).
Genome.
Both species have been fully sequenced and are available
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