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00.050.2.02.001. Bombyx mori virus

Cite this publication as: ICTVdB Management (2006). 00.050.2.02.001. Bombyx mori virus. In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchen-Osmond, C. (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA

Cite this site as: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVdB/

Table of Contents

Classification

This is a description of an invertebrate virus at the species level.

ICTVdB Virus Code: 00.050.2.02.001. Virus accession number: 50202001. Obsolete virus code: 50.2.2.0.001; superceded accession number: 50220001.
NCBI Taxon Identifier NCBI Taxonomy ID: 10809.

Name, Synonyms and Lineage

ICTV approved acronym: BmDNV. Virus is the type of the genus 00.050.2.02. Iteravirus; subfamily 00.050.2. Densovirinae in the family 00.050. Parvoviridae.

Virion Properties

Morphology

Virions consist of a capsid. Virus capsid is not enveloped, round with icosahedral symmetry. The nucleocapsid is isometric and has a diameter of 18-22 nm, or 20-26 nm. Capsids appear round. The capsid consists of 60 capsomers, each a quadrilateral 'kite-shaped' wedge. Surface projections are small and surface appears rough.

Capsids can be penetrated by stain and some appear dark in the center. Only one species is recovered in preparations.

Nucleic Acid

The genome is not segmented and contains a single molecule of linear negative-sense, or positive-sense, single-stranded DNA. The complete genome is 5000 nucleotides long, is fully sequenced. Sequenced genome has the accession number(s)
[M15123]; [M60583]; [M60584]. The genome has terminally redundant sequences. The genome sequence is repeated at one end, or repeated at both ends. The 5'-terminal sequence has inverted repeats of the 3'-terminus and palindromic arrangements; terminal repeats at the 5'-end are 120-300 nucleotides long (and longer). The 3'-terminus has conserved nucleotide sequences; of 120-300 nucleotides in length (and longer, sequence has inverted repeats and palindromic arrangement. Populations of mature viruses contain particles with equivalent numbers of positive and negative sense ssDNA . Upon extraction, the complementary DNA strands usually form dsDNA.

GenBank records for nucleotide sequences; complete genome sequences.

Proteins

The viral genome encodes structural proteins.

Lipids

Lipids are absent.

Biological Properties

Natural Host

Domain
Viral hosts belong to the Domain Eucarya.

Domain Eucarya
Kingdom Animalia.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda.

Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda.

References

The following generic references are cited in the most recent ICTV Report.

PubMed References.



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ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, developed for the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by Dr Cornelia Büchen-Osmond, is written in DELTA. The virus descriptions in ICTVdB are coded by ICTV members and experts, or by the ICTVdB Management using data provided by the experts, the literature or the latest ICTV Report. The character list is the underlying code. All virus descriptions are based on the character list and natural language translations from the encoded descriptions are automatically generated and formatted for display on the Web.

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