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Nature of Genome:
General Host Type:
Morphology:

ssRNA
Plants
unencapsidated ssRNA


Family

80.  Viroids

EM from the Beltsville Microscopy Unit, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
 

Taxonomic Structure of Viroids

 

Family         80.001. Pospiviroidae
Genus                      80.001.0.01. Pospiviroid
Genus                      80.001.0.02. Hostuviroid
Genus                      80.001.0.03. Cocadviroid
Genus                      80.001.0.04. Apscaviroid
Genus                      80.001.0.05. Coleviroid

 

Family         80.002. Avsunviroidae
Genus                      80.002.0.01. Avsunviroid
Genus                      80.002.0.02. Pelamoviroid
                                80.002.0.00. unassigned


List of Unassigned Viroids

List of Species in the Genus

The ICTVdB viroid code and the viruses. Official viroid species names are in italics. Tentative viroid species names, alternative names ( ), isolates, strains, serotypes, subspecies, or rejected names are not italicized.
 
viroid codes, viroid names, genome sequence accession numbers [ ] and assigned abbreviations ( ), are:

Species, their serotypes, strains and isolates

80.002.0.00.002.

Blueberry mosaic viroid-like RNA

80.002.0.00.002.00.001.

    Blueberry mosaic viroid-like RNA

(BluMVd-RNA)

80.002.0.00.003.

Burdock stunt viroid

80.002.0.00.003.00.001.

    Burdock stunt viroid

(BuSVd)

80.002.0.00.004.

Eggplant latent viroid

80.002.0.00.004.00.001.

    Eggplant latent viroid

(ELVd)

80.002.0.00.005.

Nicotiana glutinosa stunt viroid

80.002.0.00.005.00.001.

    Nicotiana glutinosa stunt viroid

(NGSVd)

80.002.0.00.006.

Pigeon pea mosaic mottle viroid

80.002.0.00.006.00.001.

    Pigeon pea mosaic mottle viroid

(PPMMoVd)

80.002.0.00.007.

Tomato bunchy top viroid

80.002.0.00.007.00.001.

    Tomato bunchy top viroid

(ToBTVd)


















Similarity with other Taxa

None reported.

Derivation of Names

Apsca: sigla from apple scar skin viroid.
Avsun: sigla avocado sunblotch viroid.
Cocad: sigla from coconut cadang-cadang viroid.
Cole: sigla from coleus blumei viroid 1.
Hostu: sigla from hop stunt viroid.
Pelamo: sigla from peach latent mosaic viroid.
Pospi: sigla from potato spindle tuber viroid.
Viroid: from the name given to the subviral agent of potato spindle tuber disease.

References

Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report

Contributed by

Flores, R., Randles, J.W., Owens, R.A., Bar-Joseph M. and Diener, T.O.


Cite this publication as: Index of Viruses - Avsunviroidae (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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