Seven novel tailed lytic viruses (Ds3CZ, Ds5CZ, Ds9CZ, Ds16CZ, Ds20CZ, Ds23CZ, Ds25CZ) infecting the bacterium Dickeya solani were isolated in the Czech Republic. Genomes of these viruses are dsDNA, 149,364 to 155,285 bp in length, and the genome arrangement is very similar to that of the type virus Dickeya virus LIMEstone 1. All but the Ds25CZ virus should be regarded as strains of a single species. Most of the sequence differences are due to the presence or absence of homing endonuclease (HE) genes, with 23 HEs found in Ds3CZ, Ds5CZ, and Ds20CZ, 22 in Ds9CZ, 19 in Ds16CZ, 18 in Ds25CZ, and 15 in Ds23CZ.

Department of Plant Virology Institute of Plant Molecular Biology Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences Branišovská 31 České Budějovice Czech Republic

PRI Havlíčkův Brod Dobrovského 2366 580 01 Havlíčkův Brod Czech Republic

VŠCHT Technická 1905 5 Praha 6 Dejvice 160 00 Prague Czech Republic

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