Bacteriophage P1
Synonyms
Coliphage P1
Enterobacteria phage P1
P1 Phage
P1 Phages
Phage P1
Phage, P1
Phages, P1
A species of temperate bacteriophage in the genus P1-like viruses, family MYOVIRIDAE, which infects E. coli. It is the largest of the COLIPHAGES and consists of double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.