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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Polycipiviridae

  • Ingrida Olendraite
  • , Katherine Brown
  • , Steven M. Valles
  • , Andrew E. Firth
  • , Yanping Chen
  • , Diego M. A. Guerin
  • , Yoshifumi Hashimoto
  • , Salvador Herrero
  • , Joachim R. de Miranda
  • , Eugene Ryabov
  • , Elliot J. Lefkowitz
  • , Andrew J. Davison
  • , Stuart G. Siddell
  • , Peter Simmonds
  • , Sead Sabanadzovic
  • , Donald B. Smith
  • , Richard J. Orton
  • , Nick J. Knowles
  • , et al.

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Abstract

Polycipiviridae is a family of picorna-like viruses with non-segmented, linear, positive-sense RNA genomes of approximately 10-12 kb. Unusually for viruses within the order Picornavirales, their genomes are polycistronic, with four (or more) consecutive 5' -proximal open reading frames (ORFs) encoding structural (and possibly other) proteins and a long 3' ORF encoding the replication polyprotein. Members of species within the family have all been detected in ants or via arthropod transcriptomic datasets. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the Polycipiviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/polycipiviridae.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)554-555
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of General Virology
Volume100
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • Polycipiviridae
  • ICTV Report
  • taxonomy

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