ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hypoviridae

• Published in: Journal of general virology Vol. 99; no. 5; pp. 615 - 616
• Main Authors: Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Ghabrial, Said A., Kim, Kook-Hyung, Pearson, Michael, Marzano, Shin-Yi L., Yaegashi, Hajime, Xie, Jiatao, Guo, Lihua, Kondo, Hideki, Koloniuk, Igor, Hillman, Bradley I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Hypoviridae; Taxonomy; ICTV Report

The Hypoviridae , comprising one genus, Hypovirus , is a family of capsidless viruses with positive-sense, ssRNA genomes of 9.1–12.7 kb that possess either a single large ORF or two ORFs. The ORFs appear to be translated from genomic RNA by non-canonical mechanisms, i.e. internal ribosome entry site...