Taxon Details

family: Tectiviridae (release 2022, MSL 38)

Etymology: from the Latin tectus, meaning "covered", referring to a lipid envelope covering the DNA compartment and separating the genomic DNA from a protein capsid in viruses of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: Ratification_1978.pdf PubMed ID: 7793328

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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