Enterobacteria phage T6

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| parent = Tequatrovirus

| species = Escherichia virus T4

| strain = Enterobacteria phage T6

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Enterobacteria phage T6 is a bacteriophage strain that infects Escherichia coli bacteria. It was one bacteriophage that was used as a model system in the 1950s in exploring the methods viruses replicate, along with the other T-even bacteriophages (which build up virus species Escherichia virus T4, a member of genus T4virus according to ICTV nomenclature):[https://web.archive.org/web/20181023022528/https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/master-species-lists/m/msl/7992 ICTV master species list 2018a v1] Enterobacteria phage T2, Enterobacteria phage T4 and Enterobacteria phage T2.[http://m.eb.com/topic/48324 Encyclopædia Britannica]