Taxon Details

Taxon name: Chaseviridae

to honour Martha Cowles Chase, an American geneticist who helped confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

ICTV Report: Chaseviridae Created in Proposal: 2019.047B.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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