Bacillus virus G is a bacteriophage (phage) that infects Bacillus bacteria. The phage has been reported to have the largest genome of all discovered Myoviridae with nearly 700 protein-coding genes.[1]
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Duplodnaviria |
| Kingdom: | Heunggongvirae |
| Phylum: | Uroviricota |
| Class: | Caudoviricetes |
| Order: | Caudovirales |
| Family: | Myoviridae |
| Species: | Bacillus virus G
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References
edit- ^ Kristensen, DM; Cai X; Mushegian A (Apr 2011). "Evolutionarily conserved orthologous families in phages are relatively rare in their prokaryotic hosts". J Bacteriol. 193 (8): 1806–14. doi:10.1128/JB.01311-10. PMC 3133016. PMID 21317336.
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