Members infect only birds. Some cause severe illness and even death, but oncogenicity has not been observed.
See discussion under family description.
See discussion under family description.
The best-studied human polyomaviruses, BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) and JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) belong to this genus and are associated with nephropathy and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, respectively.
See discussion under family description.
Members infect humans and other mammals. Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) and raccoon polyomavirus RacPyV) are so far the only members known to cause cancer in their natural host.
See discussion under family description.
See discussion under 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:
Ugo Moens
Department of Medical Biology
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway
E-mail: ugo.moens@uit.no
Abend, J. R., Joseph, A. E., Das, D., Campbell-Cecen, D. B. & Imperiale, M. J. (2009). A truncated T antigen expressed from an alternatively spliced BK virus early mRNA. J Gen Virol 90, 1238-1245. [PubMed]
Ugo Moens, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Chris Lauber, Torbjörn Ramqvist, Mariet C. W. Feltkamp, Matthew D. Daugherty, Ernst J. Verschoor and Bernhard Ehlers
Decapodiridoviruses are large (158 nm) icosahedral viruses that infect penaeid shrimp and crayfish.
Other than diameter (158 nm) and icosahedral symmetry, little is known about members of this family.
