Nature of Genome:
General Host Type:
Morphology:
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dsDNA
Vertebrates
not enveloped, isometric |
List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus
Until the species demarcation criteria are established the list of species in the genus is provisional.
List of Species in the Genus
The ICTVdB virus code and the viruses. Official virus species names are in italics. Tentative virus species
names, alternative names ( ), isolates, strains, serotypes, subspecies, or rejected names are not italicized.
Virus codes, virus names, genome sequence accession numbers [ ] and assigned abbreviations ( ), are:
Species, their serotypes, strains and isolates
00.047.0.01.002. | African green monkey polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.002.00.001. | African green monkey polyomavirus | [K02562] | (AGMPyV) |
00.047.0.01.002.00.002. | B-lymphotropic polyomavirus |
| (LPyV) |
00.047.0.01.003. | Baboon polyomavirus 2 |
| |
00.047.0.01.003.00.002. | Baboon polyomavirus 2 |
| (BPyV-2) |
00.047.0.01.004. | BK polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.004.00.001. | BK polyomavirus | [V01108] | (BKPyV) |
00.047.0.01.004.00.001. | BK virus strain Dunlop | [J02038] | (BKV) |
00.047.0.01.005. | Bovine polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.005.00.001. | Bovine polyomavirus | [D13942] | |
00.047.0.01.005.00.001. | Bovine polyomavirus | [NC_001442] | |
00.047.0.01.005. | Bovine polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.005.00.003. | Fetal rhesus kidney virus |
| (BPyV) |
00.047.0.01.005. | Bovine polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.005.00.004. | Stump-tailed macaques virus |
| |
00.047.0.01.006. | Budgerigar fledgling disease polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.006.00.001. | Budgerigar fledgling disease polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.007. | Hamster polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.007.00.002. | Hamster papovavirus |
| (HapV) |
00.047.0.01.007. | Hamster polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.007.00.001. | Hamster polyomavirus | [X02449] | (HaPyV) |
00.047.0.01.014. | Human polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.014.00.001. | Human polyomavirus |
| (HPyV) |
00.047.0.01.008. | JC polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.008.00.001. | JC polyomavirus | [J02226] | (JCPyV) |
00.047.0.01.008. | JC virus | [J02226] | (JCV) |
00.047.0.01.009. | Murine pneumotropic virus |
| |
00.047.0.01.009.00.002. | Kilham polyomavirus |
| (KPyV) |
00.047.0.01.009.00.002. | (K virus) |
| (KV) |
00.047.0.01.009. | Murine pneumotropic virus |
| |
00.047.0.01.009.00.001. | Murine pneumotropic virus | [M55904] | (MPtV) |
00.047.0.01.010. | Murine polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.01.010.00.001. | Murine polyomavirus (strain A2) | [J02288] | (MPyV) |
00.047.0.01.011. | Rabbit kidney vacuolating virus |
| |
00.047.0.01.011.00.001. | Rabbit kidney vacuolating virus |
| (RKV) |
00.047.0.01.012. | Simian virus 12 |
| |
00.047.0.01.012.00.001. | Simian virus 12 |
| (SV-12) |
00.047.0.01.013. | Simian virus 40 |
| |
00.047.0.01.013.00.001. | Simian virus 40 (strain 776) | [J02400] | (SV-40) |
Tentative Species in the Genus
00.047.0.81.015. | Athymic rat polyomavirus |
| |
00.047.0.81.015.00.0011. | Athymic rat polyomavirus |
| (ARPyV) |
List of Unassigned Viruses in the Family
None reported.
Similarity with other Taxa
Until the VIIth ICTV report, the genus Polyomavirus was assigned as one of two genera within the family Papovaviridae (the other genus being Papillomavirus).
Derivation of Names
Polyoma: from Greek poly, "many", and -oma, denoting "tumors".
References
Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report
Contributed by
Hou, J., Jensen, P.J., Major, E.O., Zur Hausen, H.J., Almeida, J., Van Der Noordaa, D., Walker, D., Lowy, D., Bernard, U., Butel, J.S, Cheng, D., Frisque, R.J. and Nagashima, K.
Cite this publication as: Index of Viruses - Polyomaviridae (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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