Characteristics
Plaques: 0.5mm, clear-turbid, halo, ring.
Inactivated after 8 years in broth at -70oC.
Sensitive to chloroform.
Generalized transducing phage (lytic) for QM B1551.
Estimate of molecular weight (restriction fragments: 97x10^6 dalton. 20% of thymine replaced by some form of substitued HMU.
Dimensions in nm (Ackermann unpubl.):
UA head 93 tail 199 x 21
PT head 93 tail 199 x 15
