Bdellomicrovirus [SEP] parent taxon
Bdellomicrovirus
Bdellomicrovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family "Microviridae", in the subfamily "Gokushovirinae". "Bdellovibrio" bacteria serve as natural hosts. There are currently only two species in this genus including the type species "Bdellovibrio phage MAC 1".
Structure.
Viruses in "Bdellomicrovirus" are non-enveloped, with icosahedral and Round geometries, and T=1 symmetry. The diameter is around 30 nm. Genomes are circular, around 4.5kb in length.
Life cycle.
Viral
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