Taxon Details

History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Alphasatellitidae; Proposal: 2017.004P.A.v4.Alphasatellitidae; : ; ICTV Report: ; Reference:

from the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet and the Latin satellit, meaning "attendent", referring to mobile genetic elements that are dependent upon a helper virus to spread. The suffix -satelittidae is used for satelitte family taxa

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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