Pleolipoviridae

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Pleolipoviridae
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Monodnaviria
Kingdom: Trapavirae
Phylum: Saleviricota
Class: Huolimaviricetes
Order: Haloruvirales
Family:Pleolipoviridae
Genera

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Pleolipoviridae is a family of DNA viruses that infect halophilic archaea. [1] [2] .

Viruses belonging to the family Pleolipoviridae are characterised by pleomorphic virus particles, which consist of a lipid membrane with spike protein(s) and membrane protein(s), but have no capsid shell. The genome is a single-stranded or double-stranded, linear or circular DNA molecule, depending on a species. [3]

Taxonomy

The following genera are recognized:

Also, Epsilonpleolipovirus was proposed based on the analyses of metagenomic data [4] , but not ratified yet.

References

  1. ↑ "Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). ICTV. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Bamford DH, Pietilä MK, Roine E, Atanasova NS, Dienstbier A, Oksanen HM (December 2017). "Pleolipoviridae - ssDNA/dsDNA Viruses". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). ICTV. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  3. ↑ Liu Y, Dyall-Smith M, Oksanen HM (August 2022). "Family: Pleolipoviridae". ICTV. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Alarcón-Schumacher T, Lücking D, Erdmann S (2023). "Revisiting evolutionary trajectories and the organization of the Pleolipoviridae family". PLOS Genetics.


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