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:
Bert Rima, Peter Collins, Andrew Easton, Ron Fouchier, Gael Kurath, Robert A. Lamb, Benhur Lee, Andrea Maisner, Paul Rota and Linfa Wang
The seadornavirus genome consists of 12 segments of dsRNA. During replication, virions are found in the cell cytoplasm. Viruses are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by mosquito vectors.
Phytoreovirus particles have icosahedral symmetry with a distinctive angular appearance and contain 12 dsRNA species. They are transmitted by cicadellid leafhoppers to susceptible plant species, replicating in both hosts and vectors.
Jelle Matthijnssens, Houssam Attoui, Krisztián Bányai, Corina P. D. Brussaard, Pranav Danthi, Mariana del Vas, Terence S. Dermody, Roy Duncan, Qín Fāng (方勤), Reimar Johne, Peter P. C. Mertens, Fauziah Mohd Jaafar, John Patton, Takahide Sasaya (笹谷孝英), Nobuhiro Suzuki (鈴木信弘) and Taiyun Wei (魏太云)
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Matthijnssens et al., (2022) ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Sedoreoviridae, Journal of General Virology (2022) 103:001782.
