Taxon Details

Taxon name: Marnaviridae

from the Latin mare, meaning "sea", referring to the environment from which virus was isolated, and RNA, referring to ribonucleic acid, the genetic material of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

ICTV Report: Marnaviridae Created in Proposal: 2003.F094-098.Marnaviridae.pdf Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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