Taxon Details

Taxon name: Steitzviridae

to honour the American biochemist Joan Argetsinger Steitz for her delineation of an initiation sequence that is central to modern-day ribosome profiling; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

ICTV Report: Created in Proposal: 2020.095B.R.Leviviricetes.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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