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. 2020 Jan;101(1):3-4.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001381.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nudiviridae

Robert L Harrison  1 , Elisabeth A Herniou  2 , Annie Bézier  2 , Johannes A Jehle  3 , John P Burand  4 , David A Theilmann  5 , Peter J Krell  6 , Monique M van Oers  7 , Madoka Nakai  8 , Ictv Report Consortium
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nudiviridae

Robert L Harrison et al. J Gen Virol. 2020 Jan.

Abstract

Members of the family Nudiviridae are large dsDNA viruses with distinctive rod-shaped nucleocapsids and circular genomes of 96-232 kbp. Nudiviruses have been identified from a diverse range of insects and crustaceans and are closely related to baculoviruses. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Report on the taxonomy of the family Nudiviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/nudiviridae.

Keywords: ICTV report; Nudiviridae; taxonomy.

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The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Negatively-stained virions (a) and nucleocapsids (b) of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus (genus Alphanudivirus). Arrows indicate (a) the membrane from a disrupted virion, (b) tail-like appendages. (c) A virion of Helicoverpa zea nudivirus 2. Bars, 0.2 µm. Micrographs (a) and (b) modified and reprinted from [5] with permission from Elsevier, (c) produced by Jean Adams (USDA-ARS).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Genome map of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus isolate Ma07. Positions and orientations of annotated ORFs are represented as arrows, with filled arrows corresponding to core genes (yellow) and ORFs conserved among other nudiviruses (green). Locations of direct (dr) and tandem (tr) repeat sequence regions are also shown.
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