Ortervirales: New Virus Order Unifying Five Families of Reverse-Transcribing Viruses

Mart Krupovic (1) , Jonas Blomberg (2) , John Coffin (3) , Indranil Dasgupta (4) , Hung Fan (5) , Andrew Geering (6) , Robert Gifford (7) , Balázs Harrach (8) , Roger Hull (9) , Welkin Johnson (10) , Jan Kreuze (11) , Dirk Lindemann (12) , Carlos Llorens (13) , Ben Lockhart (14) , Jens Mayer (15) , Emmanuelle Muller (16) , Neil Olszewski (14) , Hanu Pappu (17) , Mikhail Pooggin (18) , Katja Richert-Pöggeler (19) , Sead Sabanadzovic (20) , Hélène Sanfaçon (21) , James Schoelz (22) , Susan Seal (23) , Livia Stavolone (24) , Jonathan Stoye (25) , Pierre-Yves Teycheney (16) , Michael Tristem (25) , Eugene Koonin (26) , Jens Kuhn (26)

1 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
2 Uppsala University
3 Tufts University School of Medicine [Boston]
4 University of Delhi
5 UC Irvine - University of California [Irvine]
6 University of Queensland [Brisbane]
7 University of Glasgow
8 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
9 John Innes Centre [Norwich]
10 BC - Boston College
11 CIP - International Potato Center [Lima]
12 Institute of Virology [Dresden]
13 UV - Universitat de València
14 UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities]
15 Saarland University [Saarbrücken]
16 UMR AGAP - Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales
17 WSU - Washington State University
18 UMR BGPI - Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite
19 JKI - Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
20 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
21 AAFC - Agriculture and Agri-Food
22 Mizzou - University of Missouri [Columbia]
23 University of Greenwich
24 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
25 Imperial College London
26 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]

Reverse-transcribing viruses, which synthesize a copy of genomic DNA from an RNA template, are widespread in animals, plants, algae, and fungi (1, 2). This broad distribution suggests the ancient origin(s) of these viruses, possibly [...]

Keywords: belpaoviridae; hepadnaviridae; international committee on taxonomy of viruses (ICTV); metaviridae; retroviridae; retroviruses; Ty3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposons; virus classification

Keywords: caulimoviridae; pseudoviridae; virus evolution

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

Mart Krupovic, Jonas Blomberg, John Coffin, Indranil Dasgupta, Hung Fan, et al.. Ortervirales: New Virus Order Unifying Five Families of Reverse-Transcribing Viruses. Journal of Virology, 2018, 92 (12), pp.e00515-18. ⟨10.1128/JVI.00515-18⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977336⟩