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Volume 98, Issue 12

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Open Access

Abstract

Members of the family (termed pleolipoviruses) are pseudo-spherical and pleomorphic archaeal viruses. The enveloped virion is a simple membrane vesicle, which encloses different types of DNA genomes of approximately 7–16 kbp (or kilonucleotides). Typically, virions contain a single type of transmembrane (spike) protein at the envelope and a single type of membrane protein, which is embedded in the envelope and located in the internal side of the membrane. All viruses infect extremely halophilic archaea in the class Halobacteria (phylum Euryarchaeota). Pleolipoviruses have a narrow host range and a persistent, non-lytic life cycle. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the which is available at www.ictv.global/report/pleolipoviridae.

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Keyword(s): Halorubrum pleomorphic virus 1 , ICTV , Pleolipoviridae and taxonomy
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pleolipoviridae
J. Gen. Virol. 98, 2916 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000972
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