ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Bicaudaviridae
Prangishvili, David and Krupovic, Mart and ICTV Report Consortium,, 99, 864-865 (2018),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001106,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 0022-1317,
abstract= The family Bicaudaviridae includes viruses that infect hyperthermophilic archaea in the genus Acidianus. The circular double-stranded DNA genome of Acidianus two-tailed virus consists of 62 730 bp, and replication can be either lytic or lysogenic. Virions undergo unique extracellular morphogenesis, being released from host cells as spindle-shaped particles that subsequently develop long tails, one at each of the two pointed ends. The spindle-shaped morphology represents a group of archaea-specific virion morphotypes. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Bicaudaviridae which is available at www.ictv.global/report/bicaudaviridae.,
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