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. 2022 Mar;103(3):001721.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001721.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Adenoviridae 2022

Mária Benkő  1 , Koki Aoki  2 , Niklas Arnberg  3 , Andrew J Davison  4 , Marcela Echavarría  5 , Michael Hess  6 , Morris S Jones  7 , Győző L Kaján  1 , Adriana E Kajon  8 , Suresh K Mittal  9 , Iva I Podgorski  10 , Carmen San Martín  11 , Göran Wadell  3 , Hidemi Watanabe  2 , Balázs Harrach  1 , Ictv Report Consortium
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Adenoviridae 2022

Mária Benkő et al. J Gen Virol. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

The family Adenoviridae includes non-enveloped viruses with linear dsDNA genomes of 25-48 kb and medium-sized icosahedral capsids. Adenoviruses have been discovered in vertebrates from fish to humans. The family is divided into six genera, each of which is more common in certain animal groups. The outcome of infection may vary from subclinical to lethal disease. This is a summary of the ICTV Report on the family Adenoviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/adenoviridae.

Keywords: Adenoviridae; Atadenovirus; Aviadenovirus; ICTV Report; Ichtadenovirus; Mastadenovirus; Siadenovirus; Taxonomy; Testadenovirus.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Adenovirus virion structure. Left: a model, built from a low-resolution cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of human adenovirus 5 [9]. Yellow - penton bases, dark blue - fiber protein trimers, modelled from the crystal structure of the distal knob and the filamentous shaft [10], shaded triangle - one facet. Right: schematic of a triangular facet [1].
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Genome organization of the mastadenovirus human adenovirus 5. Coloured arrows depict genes conserved in all genera (black), present in more than one genus (blue) or restricted to mastadenoviruses (red). Rectangles mark the inverted terminal repeats.
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