Revisiting the taxonomy of the family Circoviridae: establishment of the genus Cyclovirus and removal of the genus Gyrovirus

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 162; no. 5; pp. 1447 - 1463
• Main Authors: Rosario, Karyna, Breitbart, Mya, Harrach, Balázs, Segalés, Joaquim, Delwart, Eric, Biagini, Philippe, Varsani, Arvind
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.05.2017; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Anelloviridae; Anemia; animal viruses; Animals; Base Sequence; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Birds; chemical bonding; Chicken anemia virus; Circoviridae; Circoviridae Infections - veterinary; Circoviridae Infections - virology; Circovirus; DNA, Viral - genetics; fish; genome; Genome, Viral - genetics; Genomes; guidelines; Gyrovirus - classification; Gyrovirus - genetics; Hogs; host range; hosts; Infectious Diseases; Life Sciences; Medical Microbiology; metagenomics; Microbiology and Parasitology; new genus; new species; Pathogens; polymerase chain reaction; single-stranded DNA; Taxonomy; Virology; Virology Division News; Viruses; San Francisco California; California; United States > US; Spain; Pairwise Identity; Chicken Anemia Virus; Genomic Feature; Animal Virus; ssDNA Virus

The family Circoviridae contains viruses with covalently closed, circular, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genomes, including the smallest known autonomously replicating, capsid-encoding animal pathogens. Members of this family are known to cause fatal diseases in birds and pigs and have been historical...