Characterization and genomic analysis of a novel lytic phage vB_PstM_ZRG1 infecting Stutzerimonas stutzeri, representing a new viral genus, Elithevirus.

"the complete genome sequence of phage vb_pstm_zrg1 has been stored in genbank with accession number oq504961 and the 16s rrna sequence of the host also have been deposited in ncbi genbank under accession number oq727111."

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"Funding information This study was supported by the Laoshan Laboratory (No. LSKJ202203202), the 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42120104006, 41976117, 42176111), and the 10.13039/501100012226Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (202172002, 201812002 and Andrew McMinn)."