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. 2023 Dec;104(12):001926.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001926.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Discoviridae 2023

Jens H Kuhn  1 , Scott Adkins  2 , Katherine Brown  3 , Juan Carlos de la Torre  4 , Michele Digiaro  5 , Holly R Hughes  6 , Sandra Junglen  7 , Amy J Lambert  6 , Piet Maes  8 , Marco Marklewitz  9 , Gustavo Palacios  10 , Takahide Sasaya  11 , Yong-Zhen Zhang  12 , Massimo Turina  13
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Discoviridae 2023

Jens H Kuhn et al. J Gen Virol. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

Discoviridae is a family of negative-sense RNA viruses with genomes of 6.2-9.7 kb that have been associated with fungi and stramenopiles. The discovirid genome consists of three monocistronic RNA segments with open reading frames (ORFs) that encode a nucleoprotein (NP), a nonstructural protein (Ns), and a large (L) protein containing an RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) domain. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Discoviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/discoviridae.

Keywords: Discoviridae; ICTV Report; orthodiscovirus; taxonomy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Genome organisation of Penicillium discovirus. ORFs are indicated as boxes, coloured according to the predicted protein function (L, large protein gene; NP, nucleoprotein gene; Ns, nonstructural protein gene).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Phylogenetic relationships of viruses in the family Discoviridae. Branches for other families are collapsed. Numbers at nodes indicate bootstrap support >70 %. Full details of the virus sequences and methods used are available in the full ICTV Report on the family Discoviridae.
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