| Mycobacterium virus Patience | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Duplodnaviria |
| Kingdom: | Heunggongvirae |
| Phylum: | Uroviricota |
| Class: | Caudoviricetes |
| Order: | Caudovirales |
| Family: | Siphoviridae |
| Genus: | Patiencevirus |
| Species: | Mycobacterium virus Patience |
Mycobacterium virus Patience, also called Patience, is a bacteriophage that infects Mycobacterium smegmatis bacteria. The large difference between the GC content of this virus's genome (50.3%) and that of its host (67.4%) indicate Patience likely evolved among bacteria of lower GC content but was able to infect M. smegmatis as well. It is the only species of the genus Patiencevirus.
References
- Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Marinelli, Laura J.; Bowman, Charles; Broussard, Gregory W.; Guerrero Bustamante, Carlos; Boyle, Michelle M.; Petrova, Zaritza O.; Dedrick, Rebekah M.; Pope, Welkin H.; Modlin, Robert L.; Hendrix, Roger W.; Hatfull, Graham F. (December 2012). "On the nature of mycobacteriophage diversity and host preference". Virology. 434 (2): 187–201. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.026. PMC 3518647. PMID 23084079.
- Pope, W. H.; Jacobs-Sera, D.; Russell, D. A.; Rubin, D. H. F.; Kajee, A.; Msibi, Z. N. P.; Larsen, M. H.; Jacobs, W. R.; Lawrence, J. G.; Hendrix, R. W.; Hatfull, G. F. (2 December 2014). "Genomics and Proteomics of Mycobacteriophage Patience, an Accidental Tourist in the Mycobacterium Neighborhood". mBio. 5 (6): e02145-14–e02145-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.02145-14. PMC 4324244. PMID 25467442.
- "Virus Taxonomy: 2020 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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