Family Reoviridae


Compiled for the VIth ICTV Report by Holmes IH, Boccardo G, Estes MK, Furuichi MK, Hoshino Y, Joklik WK, McCrae M, Mertens PPC, Milne RG, Samal KSK, Shikata E, Winton JR, Uyeda I, Nuss DL


Taxonomic Structure of the Family
ICTVdB - Description of the Family

References cited in the VIth ICTV Report

Boccardo G, Milne RG (1984) Plant reovirus group. CMI/AAB Descriptions of Plant Viruses. No 294, 4pp

Chen CC (1989) Comparison of proteins and nucleic acids of Echinochloa ragged stunt and rice ragged stunt viruses. Intervirology 30: 278-284

Estes MK (1991) Rotaviruses and their replication. In: Fields BN, Knipe DM (eds) Fundamental Virology, 2nd edn Raven Press, New York, pp 619-642

Francki RIB, Milne RG, Hatta T (1985) Atlas of Plant Viruses Vol 1. CRC Press, Boca Raton FL

Hetrick F, Samal KSK, Lupiana B, Dopazo C, Subramanian K, Mohanty SB (1992) Members of the family Reoviridae found in aquatic animals. In: Kimura T (ed) Salmonid Diseases (Proceedings of the Oji International Symposium on Salmonid Diseases). Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo Japan, pp 33-40

Hull R, Brown F, Payne CC (eds) (1989) Virology, directory and dictionary of animal, bacterial and plant viruses. Macmillan Press Ltd, London

Karabatsos N, Poland JD, Emmons RW, Mathews JH, Calisher CH, Wolf KL (1987) Antigenic variants of Colorado tick fever virus. J Gen Virol 68: 1463-1469

Lee SY, Uyeda I, Shikata E (1987) Characterization of RNA polymerase associated with rice ragged stunt virus. Intervirology 27: 189-195

Marzachi C, Boccardo G, Nuss DL (1991) Cloning of the maize rough dwarf virus genome: molecular confirmation of the plant reovirus classification scheme and identification of two large non-overlapping coding domains within a single genome segment. Virology 180: 518-526.

Mertens PPC, Crook NE, Rubinstein R, Pedley S, Payne CC (1989) Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus classification by electrophoretype; validation by serological analysis and agarose gel electrophoresis. J Gen Virol 70: 173-185

Nuss DL, Dall DJ (1990) Structural and functional properties of plant reovirus genomes. Adv Virus Res 38: 249-306

Rosenberger JK, Sterner FJ, Botts S, Lee KP, Margolin A (1989) In vitro and in vivo characterization of avian reoviruses. I Pathogenicity and antigenic relatedness of several avian reovirus isolates. Avian Dis 33: 535-544

Roy P, Gorman BM (eds) (1990) Bluetongue viruses. Curr Top Micro Immunol 162: 1-200

Saif LJ (1990) Nongroup A rotaviruses. In: Saif LJ, Theil KW (eds) Viral diarrhoeas of man and animals. CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, pp 73-95

Schnitzer TJ (1985) Protein coding assignments of the S genes of the avian reovirus S1133. Virology 141: 167-170

Winton JR, Lannan CN, Fryer JL, Hedrick RP, Meyers TR, Plumb JA, Yamamoto T (1987) Morphological and biochemical properties of four members of a novel group of reoviruses isolated from aquatic animals. J Gen Virol 68: 353-364

Yan J, Kudo H, Uyeda I, Lee SY, Shikata E (1992) Conserved terminal sequences of rice ragged stunt virus genomic RNA. J Gen Virol 73: 785-789


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