family: Abyssoviridae (current release)

Etymology: from the word abyss, referring to the aquatic environment where Aplysia californica, the host of Aplysia abyssovirus 1, is found and the addition of the vowel o; to the Sumerian god of watery depths Abzu, and to the discovery of Aplysia abyssovirus 1 in an RNA transcriptome obtained by “deep” sequencing technology; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: 2011.001a-gI.A.v2.Mesoniviridae.pdf PubMed ID: 30199753