Citation: Iridoviridae

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:

Family: Iridoviridae

V. Gregory Chinchar​, Paul Hick, Jie Huang, Ikbal Agah Ince​, James K Jancovich, Rachel Marschang​, Qiwei Qin, Kuttichantran Subramaniam​, Thomas B Waltzek, Richard Whittington, Trevor Williams and Qi-Ya Zhang

Family: Corticoviridae

Genus: Merivirus

Distinguishing features

Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.

Species demarcation criteria

Members of the same species are more than 95% identical in nucleotide sequence.

Resources: Corticoviridae

Sequence alignments and tree files:

None currently associated with this report. 

References: Corticoviridae

Abrescia, N. G., J. M. Grimes, H. M. Kivelä, R. Assenberg, G. C. Sutton, S. J. Butcher, J. K. Bamford, D. H. Bamford and D. I. Stuart (2008). Insights into virus evolution and membrane biogenesis from the structure of the marine lipid-containing bacteriophage PM2. Mol Cell 31: 749-61. [PubMed]

Citation: Corticoviridae

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:

Oksanen, H.M., and ICTV Report Consortium. 2017, ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Corticoviridae, Journal of General Virology, 98, 888–889. 

Authors: Corticoviridae

Hanna M. Oksanen*

Corticoviridae Study Group Chair

Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme

Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

University of Helsinki

Viikinkaari 9, FI-00014

Helsinki

Finland

E-mail: hanna.oksanen@helsinki.fi

* To whom correspondence should be addressed

Family: Corticoviridae

Hanna M Oksanen

The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Oksanen et al., (2017):
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Corticoviridae, Journal of General Virology, 98, 888–889.

Citation: Ascoviridae

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:

References: Ascoviridae

Asgari, S., Davis, J., Wood, D., Wilson, P. & McGrath, A. (2007).  Sequence and organization of the Heliothis virescens ascovirus genome. J Gen Virol 88, 1120-1132. [PubMed]