Taxon Details

Taxon name: Duplodnaviria

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

ICTV Report: Created in Proposal: 2019.004G.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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