There is only one genus in the family. The distinguishing features correspond to the family description.
Members of different species are phylogenetically distinct upon analysis of the L protein nucleotide sequence.
Jens H. Kuhn, Scott Adkins, Katherine Brown, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Michele Digiaro, Holly R. Hughes, Sandra Junglen, Amy J. Lambert, Piet Maes, Marco Marklewitz, Gustavo Palacios, Takahide Sasaya (笹谷孝英), Massimo Turina, and Yong-Zhen Zhang (张永振)
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Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
Exemplar isolate of the species
Chiapello, M., Rodríguez-Romero, J., Ayllón, M. A. & Turina, M. (2020). Analysis of the virome associated to grapevine downy mildew lesions reveals new mycovirus lineages. Virus Evol 6, veaa058. [PubMed]
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Jens H. Kuhn
ICTV Ellioviricetes Study Group Chair
Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Fort Detrick
Frederick
Maryland
USA
Email: [email protected]
Scott Adkins
The distinguishing features correspond to the family description.
Members of different species have RdRP amino acid sequence identities of <80%.
Jens H. Kuhn, Scott Adkins, Katherine Brown, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Michele Digiaro, Holly R. Hughes, Sandra Junglen, Amy J. Lambert, Piet Maes, Marco Marklewitz, Gustavo Palacios, Takahide Sasaya (笹谷孝英), Yong-Zhen Zhang (张永振), and Massimo Turina
*The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as:
