siphovirus

English

Noun

siphovirus (plural siphoviruses)

1. Any of the viruses of the family Siphoviridae.
   • 2015 July 28, Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez et al., “Transcriptome analysis of bacteriophage communities in periodontal health and disease”, in BMC Genomics‎^[1], volume 16, →DOI:

     Among the siphoviruses, there was no significant difference in those expressed that were homologous to Firmicute viruses […]