Taxon Details

Taxon name: Wolframvirales

from the chemical element wolfram, (also known as tungsten, abbreviation&colon; W), referring to the discovery of Saccharomyces 20S RNA narnavirus by sequencing "W dsRNA" of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; the suffix -virales for order taxa

ICTV Report: Created in Proposal: 2019.006G.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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