ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Tristromaviridae

David Prangishvili (1) , Elena Rensen (2) , Tomohiro Mochizuki (3) , Mart Krupovic (1) , Ictv Report Consortium

1 Département de Microbiologie - Department of Microbiology
2 BCI - Département de Biologie cellulaire et infection - Department of Cell Biology and infection
3 TITECH - Tokyo Institute of Technology [Tokyo]

Tristromaviridae is a family of viruses with linear, double-stranded DNA genomes of 16-18 kbp. The flexible, filamentous virions (400±20 nm×30±3 nm) consist of an envelope and an inner core constructed from two structural units: a rod-shaped helical nucleocapsid and a nucleocapsid-encompassing matrix protein layer. Tristromaviruses are lytic and infect hyperthermophilic archaea of the order Thermoproteales. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the Tristromaviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/tristromaviridae.

Keywords: ICTV Report; Tristromaviridae; taxonomy

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

David Prangishvili, Elena Rensen, Tomohiro Mochizuki, Mart Krupovic, Ictv Report Consortium. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Tristromaviridae. Journal of General Virology, 2019, 100, pp.135-136. ⟨10.1099/jgv.0.001190⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977323⟩