Finnlakeviridae

Finnlakeviridae is a family of bacterial viruses that is not assigned to any higher taxonomic ranks.

The family contains a single genus, Finnlakevirus, which contains a single species, Flavobacterium virus FLiP.

[1][2] This virus was isolated in 2010, with its gram-negative host Flavobacterium, from Lake Jyväsjärvi, a boreal freshwater habitat in Central Finland, and is the first described single-stranded DNA virus with an internal membrane.

[2] The genome is circular single-stranded DNA of about 9200 nucleotides in length.

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Cryo-electron microscopic reconstruction of the Flavobacterium phage FLiP virion
Genome organization of Flavobacterium phage FLiP .