Title
ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Alphaflexiviridae
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Microbiology Society
Abstract
The family Alphaflexiviridae includes viruses with flexuous filamentous virions that are 470–800 nm in length and 12–13 nm in diameter. Alphaflexiviruses have a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome of 5.5–9 kb. They infect plants and plant-infecting fungi. They share a distinct lineage of alphavirus-like replication proteins that is unusual in lacking any recognized protease domain. With a single exception, cell-to-cell and long-distance movement is facilitated by triple gene block proteins in plant-infecting genera. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Alphaflexiviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/alphaflexiviridae.
Start page
699
End page
700
Volume
101
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85088871169
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of General Virology
ISSN of the container
00221317
Sponsor(s)
Production of this summary, the online chapter, and associated resources was funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust (WT108418AIA).
Sources of information:
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