00.002. Asfarviridae - ICTVdB Index of Viruses

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Nature of Genome:
General Host Type:
Morphology:

dsDNA
Vertebrates
enveloped, spherical

Family	00.002. Asfarviridae
	Taxonomic Structure of the Family
	Family 00.002. Asfarviridae Genus 00.002.0.01. Asfivirus

Genus	00.002.0.01. Asfivirus
Type Species	00.002.0.01.001. African swine fever virus

List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus

Not applicable.

List of Species in the Genus

The ICTVdB virus code and the viruses. Official virus species names are in italics. Tentative virus species names, alternative names ( ), isolates, strains, serotypes, subspecies, or rejected names are not italicized.

Virus codes, virus names, genome sequence accession numbers [ ] and assigned abbreviations ( ), are:

Species, their serotypes, strains and isolates

00.002.0.01.001.	African swine fever virus	[NC_001659]
00.002.0.01.001.00.001.001.	African swine fever virus - Ba71V	[U18466]	(ASFV-Ba71V)
00.002.0.01.001.00.002.001.	African swine fever virus - LIL20/1	[X71982]	(ASFV-LIL20/1)
00.002.0.01.001.00.003.001.	African swine fever virus - E70, isolate MS44		(ASFV-E40/MS44)
00.002.0.01.001.00.003.002.	African swine fever virus - E70, isolate MS16		(ASFV-E40/MS16)
00.002.0.01.001.00.004.	African swine fever virus - LIS57		(ASFV-LIS57)

Tentative Species in the Genus

None reported.

List of Unassigned Viruses in the Family

None reported.

Similarity with other Taxa

Earlier African swine fever virus was listed as a member of the family Iridoviridae, but as more information was obtained, it was removed from this family. It exhibits some similarities in genome structure and strategy of replication to the poxviruses and phycodnaviruses, but it has a quite different virion structure from poxviruses and many other properties that distinguish it from the member viruses of the families Poxviridae and Phycodnaviridae.

Derivation of Names

Asfar sigla derived from African swine fever and related viruses.

References

Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report

Contributed by

Dixon, L.K., Escribano, J.M., Martins, C., Rock, D.L., Salas, M.L. and Wilkinson, P.J.

Cite this publication as: Index of Viruses - Asfarviridae (2006). In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchen-Osmond, C (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/fs_index.htm

Version 4 is based on Virus Taxonomy, Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses, 8th ICTV Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Fauquet, CM, Mayo, MA, Maniloff, J, Desselberger, U, and Ball, LA (EDS) (2005) Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 1259.

Additional References

Reference List from the 8th ICTV Report
ICTVdB taxon description
ICTVdB Picture Gallery

References to sequence databases at GenBank and PubMed Central:
PubMed Central References; nucleotide sequences; complete genomes

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