{
  "name": "Bench card: bacteriophage",
  "desc": "Bench card values for bacteriophages and phage T4: name, group, size, size in the opening micrograph, where phages are found, how they are seen, color in the images and key source",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/microscopic-life/bacteriophage/",
  "from": [
    "media/bacteriophage-dimensions.csv (head and sheath sizes)",
    "values typed from the sources listed in data_credit"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, ICTV Master Species List 2025 (MSL41), version 1, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19154110 (Tequatrovirus T4; retrieved 2026-10-25)",
    "GBIF Secretariat 2023, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Caudoviricetes (10794457), Tequatrovirus T4 (12252006), Escherichia virus T4 (9977478), checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-25",
    "Rao VB, Black LW 2010, Virology Journal 7:356, CC BY 2.0, https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-356; Leiman PG et al. 2010, Virology Journal 7:355, CC BY 2.0, https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-355 (T4 head and sheath; retrieved 2026-10-25)",
    "Lin YR, Lin CS 2012, BMC Genomics 13:224, CC BY 2.0, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-224 (phipp2 head size; retrieved 2026-10-25)",
    "Mann NH 2005, PLoS Biology 3(5):e182, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030182; Bergh Ø et al. 1989, Nature 340:467–468, https://doi.org/10.1038/340467a0 (abstract); Valli J et al. 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry 297(1):100791, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100791 (habitat and seeing; retrieved 2026-10-25)"
  ]
}
