Beatriz Soriano, Mart Krupovic and Carlos Llorens
The Member Species table enumerating important virus exemplars classified under each species of the genus is provided at the bottom of the page.
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:
Bachmann, A. S., G. Corpuz, W. P. Hareld, G. Wang and B. A. Coller (2004). A simple method for the rapid purification of copia virus-like particles from Drosophila Schneider 2 cells. J Virol Methods 115: 159-65. [PubMed]
Gypsy Database (GyDB) focusing on ortervirales and their evolutionary history: [http://gydb.org]
Repbase most commonly used database of repetitive DNA elements: [https://www.girinst.org/repbase]
Carlos Llorens*
Biotechvana
Street Agustin Escardino 9 Building 3, Labs 1.17-118
Scientific Park University of Valencia
46980, Paterna
Valencia
Spain
E-mail: carlos.llorens@biotechvana.com
The genus Pseudovirus is currently established based upon the length of the tail of the tRNA molecule that is used as a primer to initiate reverse transcription. However, classification only based on this feature is inconsistent with phylogenetic analyses, which reveal the current members of this genus to be polyphyletic. The demarcation criteria for the genus are therefore likely to change in the future.
Carlos Llorens, Beatriz Soriano and Mart Krupovic
