Kuravirus

Kuravirus is a genus of viruses within the Podoviridae family. This genus was established based on a combination of morphological features and genome organization.

Taxonomy
The following species are recognized:
 * Escherichia virus 172-1
 * Escherichia virus ECB2
 * Escherichia virus NJ01
 * Escherichia virus phiEco32
 * Escherichia virus Septima11
 * Escherichia virus SU10

Virology
Escherichia virus phiEco32, has a relatively rare morphology, a C3 morphotype, with an elongated head (145 x 44 nm) and a short tail (13 nm) with short kinked tail fibers.

These phages are temperate and are capable of generalized transduction with lysogenic conversion, and can have very high burst sizes.