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Nature of Genome:
General Host Type:
Morphology:

dsDNA
Mycoplasma
enveloped, pleomorphic


Family

00.053.   Plasmaviridae

 

Taxonomic Structure of the Family

 

Family         00.053. Plasmaviridae
Genus                      00.053.0.01.   Plasmavirus

Genus

00.053.0.01.    Plasmavirus

Type Species

00.053.0.01.001.      Acholeplasma phage L2

(L2)

List of Species in the Genus

The ICTVdB virus code and the virus names. Official virus species names are in italics. All other virus names are not italicized and their taxonomic status is color-coded as follows: alternative names ( ), isolates, strains, serotypes, subspecies, reclassified or rejected names.
 
Virus codes, virus names, genome sequence accession numbers [ ] and assigned abbreviations ( ), are:

Species, their serotypes, strains and isolates

00.053.0.01.001.

Acholeplasma phage L2

{A. laidlawii}

NC_001447

(L2)

00.053.0.01.001.00.001.

Acholeplasma phage L2

{A. laidlawii}

[L13696]

(L2)




Tentative Species in the Genus

00.053.0.81.002.

Acholeplasma phage v1

{A. laidlawii}

(v1)

00.053.0.81.003.

Acholeplasma phage v2

{A. laidlawii}

(v2)

00.053.0.81.004.

Acholeplasma phage v4

{A. laidlawii}

(v4)

00.053.0.81.005.

Acholeplasma phage v5

{A. laidlawii}

(v5)

00.053.0.81.006.

Acholeplasma phage v7

{A. laidlawii}

(v7)

00.053.0.81.007.

Acholeplasma phage M1

{A. modicum}

(M1)

00.053.0.81.008.

Acholeplasma phage O1

{A. oculi}

(O1)










List of Unassigned Species in the Family

None reported.

Similarity with Other Taxa

None reported.

Derivation of Name

plasma: from Greek plasma, ‘shaped product’ referring to the plastic virion shape.

References

Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report

Contributed by

Maniloff J.


Cite this publication as: Index of Viruses - Plasmaviridae (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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