Notes on Family: Inoviridae

flexuous filaments or rigid rods

Contents

• Members of this Family
• General Description
• Morphology
• Genome
• Genera in the Family
• All Known Sequences
• Curated Sequences

General Description

This family contains those phage that have a ssDNA genome and filamentous or rod shaped particles.

Morphology

Filamentous or rod-shaped particles, depending on the genus.

Genomen

Monopartite, circular ssDNA of c. 5-9 kb.

Genera in the Family

• Inovirus: flexuous filamentous particles about 7 nm in diameter, infecting enterobacteria
• Plectrovirus: rod-shaped particles >10 nm in diameter, infecting spiroplasmas