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00.095. Guttaviridae

Cite this publication as: ICTVdB Management (2006). 00.095. Guttaviridae. In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 3. 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 archaeal virus at the family level.

ICTVdB Virus Code: 00.095. Virus accession number: 00095FAM.

Virion Properties

Morphology

Virions are poorly characterized and consist of coat, a core, a nucleocapsid, and fibers. Virus capsid is enveloped. Virions are droplet-shaped with a beehive-like ribbed surface pattern with protrusions that are densly covered by a beard of long fibers at its pointed end. Virions measure 70-95 nm in diameter; 110-185 nm in length. The core is oblong (which released when broken a filamentous matrix that might be the DNA molecule).
Electron micrograph of Guttaviridae in SNDV, a Novel Virus of the Extremely Thermophilic and Acidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus Hans Peter Arnold, Ulrike Ziese, and Wolfram Zillig (2000) Virology 272, 409-416.

Physicochemical and Physical Properties

Virions have a buoyant density in CsCl of highly irregular.

Nucleic Acid

The genome is not segmented and contains a single molecule of circular double-stranded DNA that forms a covalently closed circle.

References

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

Taxonomic Proposals and Changes

A taxonomic proposal has been submitted to the ICTV by the Bacterial Virus Subcommittee at the meeting in St. Louis, May 2003, to create a new taxon. The proposal has been approved at the meeting of the Executive Committee in Kingston, 2004, the taxon has been designated as Family.



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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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