Vibrio cyclitrophicus phage encoding gene transfer agent fragment, representing a novel viral family.

"appendix supplementary materials image application 1 image application 2 image application 3 data availability the genome sequence of phage vb_vvic_zq26 has been deposited in genbank under accession number op918135. data availability the genome sequence of phage vb_vvic_zq26 has been deposited in genbank under accession number op918135"

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest regarding this study. 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 This work was supported by the Laoshan Laboratory (No. LSKJ202203201), Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42188102, 42120104006, 41976117, and 42176111), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (202172002, 201812002, 202072001 and Andrew McMinn)."