Tolecusatellitidae

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Tolecusatellitidae
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Informal group: Subviral agents
Informal group: Satellite nucleic acids
Family:Tolecusatellitidae
Genera

Tolecusatellitidae is a family of DNA satellite nucleic acids that depend on the presence of another virus (a helper virus) to replicate their genomes. As such, they have minimal genomes with very low genomic redundancy. The genome is a single circular DNA molecule. The family contains two genera and 131 species. [1]

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Name

The name Tolecusatellitidae is a combination of Tolecu, from the first DNA satellite shown to be associated with Tomato leaf curl virus and satellite, the fact that it is a satellite. [2]

Taxonomy

The species are ssDNA unless specified as ssDNA(+). There are 62 ssDNA(+) and 69 ssDNA satellites.

Betasatellite

Deltasatellite

References

  1. "Virus Taxonomy: 2022 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  2. "Proposal 2016.021a-kP.A.v2.Tolecusatellitidae.pdf PDF" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 19 August 2023.