AmiGO 2: Term Details for "virus tail" (GO:0098015)

Accession: GO:0098015
Name: virus tail
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: viral tail, bacteriophage tail
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Part of the virion that may be used to recognize, attach and inject the viral genome and accessory proteins into the host cell. Source: GOC:bm, VZ:3958
Comment: Many bacteriophages with dsDNA genomes, or Caudovirales, have a tail. The viral tail can be short (Podoviridae), long and non-contractile (Siphoviridae) or long and contractile (Myoviridae). The tail is the channel through which the phage genome is injected into the host bacterial cell.
History: See term history for GO:0098015 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
virus tail	is_a	virion component (GO:0044423)