Bcep78likevirus [SEP] parent taxon
Bcep78likevirus
Bcep78likevirus 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 five species in this genus, including the type species "Burkholderia phage Bcep781".
Taxonomy.
Species:
Structure.
Bcep78likeviruses are nonenveloped, with a head and tail.
Genome.
All five species have been fully sequenced and are available from ICTV. They range between 46k and 49k nucleotides, with
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