Escherichia virus 186

Escherichia virus 186 is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus Eganvirus.

As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Escherichia virus 186 is a dsDNA virus. According to its family, Myoviridae, its morphology is nonenveloped and consist of a head and a tail separated by a neck and its genome is linear. The propagation of the virions includes the attaching to a host cell (a bacterium, as Escherichia virus 186 is a bacteriophage) and the injection of the double stranded DNA; the host transcribes and translates it to manufacture new particles. To replicate its genetic content requires host cell DNA polymerases and, hence, the process is highly dependent on the cell cycle.