Family: Marnaviridae
Genus: Bacillarnavirus
Distinguishing features
Members of the genus form a separate clade from other members of the family upon phylogenetic analysis of RNA-directed RNA polymerase amino acid sequences.
Virion
See discussion under family description.
Genome organization and replication
The current members of the genus have di-cistronic genomes (Figure 2 Marnaviridae). See discussion under family description.
Biology
See discussion under family description.
Species demarcation criteria
Species demarcation cut-offs are based on pairwise comparisons of the RdRP and capsid amino acid sequences. The cut-offs are 90% identity for the RdRP and 75% identity for the capsid. The phylogenetic relationship of classified virus isolates and numerous unclassified viruses is shown in Figure 1 Bacillarnavirus.
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Figure 1 Bacillarnavirus. Maximum likelihood tree of bacillarnavirus RdRP amino sequences. The tree was produced using the JTT model with a gamma distribution of frequencies and invariant sites. Bootstrap values are shown where they were over 70%. Tips are labelled with filled circles for members of species; open circles represent unclassified viruses. Heterosigma akashiwo RNA virus (AY337486) was used as an outgroup. This phylogenetic tree and corresponding sequence alignment are available to download from the Resources page. |
Related, unclassified viruses
Virus name | Accession number |
Beihai picorna-like virus 24 | KX884507 |
Beihai picorna-like virus 25 | KX883361 |
Beihai picorna-like virus 26 | KX884536 |
Beihai picorna-like virus 27 | KX883399 |
Beihai picorna-like virus 28 | KX884511 |
N OV 003 | KY130496 |
Virus names and virus abbreviations are not official ICTV designations.