Taxon Details

History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Duplodnaviria; Proposal: 2019.004G.A.v1.Duplodnaviria; : ; ICTV Report: ; Reference:

from the Latin dūplō, meaning double and DNA, referring to the fact that all founding members of the realm have double-stranded dsDNA genomes; the suffix -viria for realm taxa

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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