Bacteriophage Ecology Group Phage Images
	Dedicated to the ecology and evolutionary biology of the parasites of unicellular organisms (UOPs)
	© Stephen T. Abedon
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Image	Source	Category	Enlarge	Description
	© Hans-W. Ackermann	electron micrograph	Enlarge	phage T2 micrograph
	© David Bird	electron micrographs	Enlarge	This is a viral diversity tableau using images from a saline lake bacteriophage study done with Richard Robarts of Environment Canada in Saskatoon. Note the rather large diversity found in these environments. Because there were no eukaryotic competitors, the phage-to-bacterium ratios in these lakes is often very high - up to 100.
	© Larry Goodridge	electron micrograph	Enlarge	LG1 was isolated from chicken feces on an E. coli O157:H7 host, but it plaques on a wide range of E. coli, and a few Enterobacteriaceae. The black bars are size bars representing 100 nm.
	© Larry Goodridge	electron micrograph	Enlarge	LG1 was isolated from chicken feces on an E. coli O157:H7 host, but it plaques on a wide range of E. coli, and a few Enterobacteriaceae. The black bars are size bars representing 100 nm.
	© Bob Duda	electron micrograph	Enlarge	Electron micrograph of Bacteriophage HK97 (negatively stained with uranyl acetate on unsupported carbon film). Bacteriophage HK97 capsid assembly is a premier model system for studying aspects of protein assembly mechanisms.
		electron micrograph	Enlarge	Electron micrograph of phage P22.
	Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter	electron micrograph	Enlarge	electron micrograph of T4 phage adsorbed to cell
	© John Wertz	electron micrograph	Enlarge	thin section of T4 phages hitting a microcolony of E. coli K-12
	© Curtis Suttle	electron micrographs	Enlarge	A through C are natural viral communities from the gulf of Mexico; D and F are cyanophages infecting marine Synechococcus spp. E is a Phycodnaviridae infecting the marine phytoflagellate Micromonas pusilla
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		electron micrograph	Enlarge	phage T4 electron micrograph
		electron micrograph	Enlarge	THIS IS NOT A PHAGE: it is a photosynthetic flagellate - Micromonas pusilla - that is infected by a virus; to the extent that this photosynthetic flagellate qualifies as a unicellular organism, then the infecting virus is an UOP, a unicellular organism parasite
	© K. Eric Wommack	electron micrograph	Enlarge
	© K. Eric Wommack	electron micrograph	Enlarge
	Encarta Encyclopedia	electron micrograph	Enlarge	shadow casted electron micrograph of T4 bacteriophage (NOTE TO WEBMASTER: IMAGE NOT ENTERED ON COMPANION PAGE)
		phage DNA (EM)	Enlarge	phage P2 DNA (and phage T2 capsid)
		phage DNA (EM)	Enlarge	phage lambda DNA
		animated gif	Enlarge	animated gif of T4 adsorption to cell envelope
	Jong Park	animated gif	Enlarge	animated gif of dancing (swimming?) T-even phage
	© James A. Sullivan	animated gif	Enlarge
	© Bob Duda	animated gif	Enlarge	Bacteriophage HK97 capsid assembly is a premier model system for studying aspects of protein assembly mechanisms.
	© Phage et al.	cartoon	Enlarge	cartoon of T-even phage from unusual angle
	© Encyclopedia Britannica	cartoon	Enlarge	cartoon of T-even phage adsoption
	© James A. Sullivan	cartoon	Enlarge	cartoon of T-even phages multiply adsorbing to a single cell
		cartoon	Enlarge	framed cartoon of T4 phage
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		cartoon	Enlarge	phage T4 sketch
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		cartoon	Enlarge	Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute logo
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	© James A. Sullivan	cartoon	Enlarge	cartoon of T-even phage lysis
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	© Posidian (a.k.a., Joshua Orvis, Associate Director of Bioinformatics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)	phage art	Enlarge	phage art

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