The 1 Felixviridae phage
a NEW proposed family of phages
RothD
Subfamily: Maevirinae
Genus: Nakavirus
Species: Nakavirus sapi
About Felixviridae
RothD was isolated against gut-associated ST-type ST323 (K. pneumoniae).
It is a temperate phage that was unable to be classified into existing phage taxa, we therefore went on a journey to classify it according to ICTV guidelines.
Given their predicted association to gut-related strains, we wanted to see if we could identify any relatives in the Gut Phage Database.
We found it clustered with 132 metagenomic viral assemblies from the GPD.
BLASTn network with high-quality phages of the GPD.
We also found Felixviridae phages are associated with the human gut, see our publication for further details: preprint
We submitted a taxonmic proposal to the ICTV on June 2024, and it got approved in 2025, see the publication here.
