A new proposed taxon for double-stranded DNA viruses, the order “Ligamenvirales”

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 157; no. 4; pp. 791 - 795
• Main Authors: Prangishvili, David, Krupovic, Mart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.04.2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Archaea; Archaea - virology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Capsid Proteins; Capsid Proteins - chemistry; Capsid Proteins - genetics; Cluster Analysis; DNA; DNA - genetics; DNA, Viral; DNA, Viral - genetics; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Order; Genes; Genome, Viral; Genomes; Infectious Diseases; Life Sciences; Lipothrixviridae; Lipothrixviridae - classification; Lipothrixviridae - genetics; Lipothrixviridae - growth & development; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Microbiology and Parasitology; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Miscellaneous; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Proteins; Rudiviridae; Rudiviridae - classification; Rudiviridae - genetics; Rudiviridae - growth & development; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Virion; Virion - ultrastructure; Virology; Virology Division News; Virus Replication; Viruses; Archaeal Virus; Hyperthermophilic Archaeal; Genome Replication; Hyperthermophilic Archaea; Linear dsDNA

Linear viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes are classified into two families, Lipothrixviridae and Rudiviridae . The members of these two families, all of which infect hyperhermophilic members of the domain Archaea, differ significantly in the complexity of their virions as well as in their mech...