Family: Marnaviridae

Genus: Salisharnavirus

 

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 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. Salishavirus

Figure 1. Salishavirus Maximum likelihood tree of salisharnavirus 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

Member species

The Member Species table enumerating important virus exemplars classified under each species of the genus is provided at the bottom of the page.

 

Related, unclassified viruses 

Virus name

Accession number

Antarctic picorna-like virus 4

KM259872

Beihai octopus virus 1

KX884503

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BZL93063

KX884535

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain HWRTX12828

KX883909

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHWZXX15591

KX883428

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHZY60755

KX884513

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHNXC40556

KX883387

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHJJX25716

KX883369

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHBJDX18281

KX883326

Beihai picorna-like virus 2 strain BHHK129932

KX883347

Beihai picorna-like virus 17

KX884505

Beihai picorna-like virus 18

KX883409

Beihai picorna-like virus 19

KX883364

Beihai picorna-like virus 21

KX884515

Beihai picorna-like virus 22

KX883905

Beihai picorna-like virus 23 strain BHZY60791

KX884514

Beihai picorna-like virus 23 strain YYSZX17154

KX884386

Beihai picorna-like virus 23 strain BWBFG39274

KX884526

Beihai sesarmid crab virus 1

KX883967

Beihai sipunculid worm virus 1

KX883388

Changjiang crawfish virus 1

KX884562

Hubei leech virus 2

KX883726

N OV 011

KY130490

N OV 039

KY130489

Q sR OV 019

KY286104

Q sR OV 022

KY286105

Sanxia picorna-like virus 1

KX883711

Sanxia picorna-like virus 2

KX883709

Sanxia picorna-like virus 3

KX883718

Sanxia picorna-like virus 4

KX883710

Sanxia picorna-like virus 5

KX883721

Sanxia picorna-like virus 10

KX883715

Shahe picorna-like virus 1

KX883666

Shahe picorna-like virus 2

KX883646

Wenzhou picorna-like virus 4

KX884371

Wenzhou picorna-like virus 6

KX884366

Wenzhou picorna-like virus 7

KX883982

Wenzhou picorna-like virus 18

KX883983

Wenzhou picorna-like virus 32

KX884361

Virus names and virus abbreviations are not official ICTV designations.