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Family	00.038.  Lipothrixviridae
	Taxonomic Structure of the Family
	Family         00.038. Lipothrixviridae Genus                      00.038.0.01. Alphalipothrixvirus Genus                      00.038.0.02. Betalipothrixvirus Genus                      00.038.0.03. Gammalipothrixvirus

List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus

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

Tentative Species in the Genus

None reported.

List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus

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

Tentative Species in the Genus

List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus

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

Tentative Species in the Genus

None reported.

List of Unassigned Viruses in the Family

None reported.

Similarity with other Taxa

Members of the families Lipothrixviridae and Rudiviridae have filamentous particles containing linear dsDNA genomes that infect extremely thermophilic Archaea in the kingdom Crenarchaeota. However, members of the family Lipothrixviridae are enveloped while those of the family Rudiviridae are not. Approximately 30% of the ORFs in the Sulfolobus islandicaus rod-shaped virus (SIRV) genomes have homologs in the SIFV genome. Similarly, 20% of AFV-1 genes have homologs in SIRV genomes. There is one ORF in the SIFV genome that shows weak similarity to a conserved ORF in the family Fuselloviridae (a291 in SSV-1) that is important for virus function. One ORF in the AFV-1 genome has significant similarity to ORF-a45 in the SSV-1 genome.

Derivation of Names

Alpha: from Greek, first
Beta: from Greek, second
Gamma: from Greek, third
Lipo: from Greek, lipos, 'fat'.
Thrix: from Greek, thrix, 'hair'.

References

Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report

Contributed by

Stedman, K., Prangishvili, D. and Zillig, W.

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.

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