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. 2017 Jun;98(6):1161-1162.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000836. Epub 2017 Jun 21.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Ophioviridae

María Laura García  1 , Elena Dal Bó  2 , John V da Graça  3 , Selma Gago-Zachert  4 , John Hammond  5 , Pedro Moreno  6 , Tomohide Natsuaki  7 , Vicente Pallás  8 , Jose A Navarro  8 , Carina A Reyes  1 , Gabriel Robles Luna  1 , Takahide Sasaya  9 , Ioannis E Tzanetakis  10 , Anna María Vaira  11 , Martin Verbeek  12 , Ictv Report Consortium
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Ophioviridae

María Laura García et al. J Gen Virol. 2017 Jun.

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  • Corrigendum: ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Ophioviridae.
    García ML, Bó ED, da Graça JV, Gago-Zachert S, Hammond J, Moreno P, Natsuaki T, Pallás V, Navarro JA, Reyes CA, Luna GR, Sasaya T, Tzanetakis IE, Vaira AM, Verbeek M, Ictv Report Consortium. García ML, et al. J Gen Virol. 2018 Jul;99(7):949. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001093. J Gen Virol. 2018. PMID: 29966549 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

The Ophioviridae is a family of filamentous plant viruses, with single-stranded negative, and possibly ambisense, RNA genomes of 11.3-12.5 kb divided into 3-4 segments, each encapsidated separately. Virions are naked filamentous nucleocapsids, forming kinked circles of at least two different contour lengths. The sole genus, Ophiovirus, includes seven species. Four ophioviruses are soil-transmitted and their natural hosts include trees, shrubs, vegetables and bulbous or corm-forming ornamentals, both monocots and dicots. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Ophioviridae, which is available at http://www.ictv.global/report/ophioviridae.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Negative contrast electron micrographs (uranyl acetate) of virus particles. Bar, 100 nm. (a) Open form of the large particle (citrus psorosis virus), and (b) collapsed form (freesia sneak virus) (courtesy of R. G. Milne).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Genome organization of the genus Ophiovirus. Mirafiori lettuce big-vein virus is shown (modified from [2]). Boxes represent ORFs. The length of the RNA segments and the predicted sizes of the ORF products are indicated. RNA4 is not reported for all ophioviruses. v, viral RNA; vc, viral complementary RNA; RdRp, RNA polymerase; MP, movement protein; CP, coat protein.
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