Figure 1 Negative-stain electron-micrograph (2% uranyl acetate) of an isolate of His1 virus. Many particles are seen binding to contaminating flagella derived from the host, Haloarcula hispanica. The bar represents 200 nm.

Figure 2 His1 genome, showing predicted ORFs (numbers above), inverted terminal repeats (ITR), the DNA polymerase (POL) and probable major capsid protein gene (VP1). Scale shown underneath is in kbp.