John Coffin, Jonas Blomberg , Hung Fan, Robert Gifford, Theodora Hatziioannou, Dirk Lindemann, Jens Mayer, Jonathan Stoye, Michael Tristem, Welkin Johnson
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Coffin et al., (2021):
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Retroviridae 2021, Journal of General Virology 2021;102:001712
Gypsy Database (GyDB) focusing on members of the order Ortervirales and their evolutionary history: http://gydb.org
Repbase database of repetitive DNA elements: https://www.girinst.org/repbase
RepetDB a knowledge database of transposon references: http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/repetdb
Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.
A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows:
Boeke, J. D. (2013). Fungal, plant and animal retrotransposon elements. In Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, 3rd edn, pp. 248-253. Edited by N. D. Rawlings & G. Salvesen: Academic Press.
de la Chaux, N. and A. Wagner (2011). BEL/Pao retrotransposons in metazoan genomes. BMC Evol Biol 11: 154. [PubMed]
Beatriz Soriano, Mart Krupovic and Carlos Llorens
The Member Species table enumerating important virus exemplars classified under each species of the genus is provided at the bottom of the page.
A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows:
Bachmann, A. S., G. Corpuz, W. P. Hareld, G. Wang and B. A. Coller (2004). A simple method for the rapid purification of copia virus-like particles from Drosophila Schneider 2 cells. J Virol Methods 115: 159-65. [PubMed]
