The sole member of the only species in this genus infects ants and has two major ORFs, with ORF2 (encoding the frameshift domain, FSD, and VP2) being expressed via ribosomal frameshifting.
See discussion under family description.
Katherine Brown, Ingrida Olendraite, Steven M. Valles, Andrew E. Firth, Yanping Chen, Diego M. A. Guérin, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, Salvador Herrero, Joachim R. de Miranda and Eugene Ryabov
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:
Aiewsakun, P. & Simmonds, P. (2018). The genomic underpinnings of eukaryotic virus taxonomy: creating a sequence-based framework for family-level virus classification. Microbiome 6, 38. [PubMed]
Ingrida Olendraite
Department of Pathology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1QP
UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Katherine Brown
Department of Pathology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1QP
UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Members lack the 2b ORF that is present in members of the genus Sopolycivirus but – in contrast to members of the genus Chipolycivirus – have the amino acid triplet GDD in motif VI of the RdRP.
See discussion under family description.
Among currently classified members of the family, chipolyciviruses are distinguised by the presence of the amino acid triplet ADD instead of GDD in motif VI of the RdRP (Olendraite et al., 2017).
Ingrida Olendraite, Katherine Brown, Steven M. Valles, Andrew E. Firth, Yanping Chen, Diego M. A. Guérin, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, Salvador Herrero, Joachim R. de Miranda and Eugene Ryabov
