Alphasphaerolipovirus
| Sphaerolipoviridae | |
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| Virus classification | |
| Group: | Group I (dsDNA)
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| Family: | |
| Genus: | Alphasphaerolipovirus
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| Species | |
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Haloarcula hispanica virus HHIV-2 | |
Alphasphaerolipovirus is a proposed genus of double stranded DNA viruses that infect haloarchaea.[1] There are three viruses currently recognized in this genus.
Morphology
Viruses of this genus are tailless icosahedral virions with an internal lipid membrane located between the protein capsid and the linear double stranded DNA genome.
Note
The name has Halosphaerovirus also been proposed for this genus.[2]
References
- ^ Pawlowski A, Rissanen I, Bamford JK, Krupovic M, Jalasvuori M (2014). "Gammasphaerolipovirus, a newly proposed bacteriophage genus, unifies viruses of halophilic archaea and thermophilic bacteria within the novel family Sphaerolipoviridae". Arch Virol. 159 (6): 1541–1554. doi:10.1007/s00705-013-1970-6. PMID 24395078.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Porter K, Tang SL, Chen CP, Chiang PW, Hong MJ, Dyall-Smith M (2013) PH1: An archaeovirus of Haloarcula hispanica related to SH1 and HHIV-2. Archaea 2013: 456318