What is the adjective for PHAGE?
In the literature, it's most common to see hyphenated compound adjectives, like &quot;phage-mediated,&quot; &quot;phage-dependent,&quot; or &quot;phage-encoded&quot; where &quot;bacterial&quot; or &quot;viral&quot; might be analogous. For example, &quot;Phage‐mediated selection and the evolution and maintenance of restriction‐modification.&quot;
Sometimes &quot;phage&quot; seems to be used as a standalone adjective, like in &quot;Phage antibodies: filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.&quot; Although I'm not sure that it would be correct to use &quot;bacterial antibodies&quot; or &quot;viral antibodies&quot; in this case, so maybe that one is an anomaly.
I would suggest following one of these trends, unless you want to do a lot of explaining to reviewers.