00.083. Rudiviridae - ICTVdB Index of Viruses

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Nature of Genome:
General Host Type:
Morphology:

dsDNA
Archaea
not enveloped, rod-shaped

Family	00.083. Rudiviridae
	Taxonomic Structure of the Family
	Family 00.083. Rudiviridae Genus 00.083.0.01. Rudivirus

Genus	00.083.0.01. Rudivirus
Type Species	00.083.0.01.002. Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2

List of Species Demarcation Criteria in the Genus

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

00.083.0.01.001.	Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 1
00.083.0.01.001.00.001.	Sulfolobus virus SIRV-1		(SIRV-1)
00.083.0.01.001.	(Sulfolobus virus SIRV-1)	[AJ414696]	(SIRV-1)
00.083.0.01.002.	Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2
00.083.0.01.002.00.001.	Sulfolobus virus SIRV-2		(SIRV-2)
00.083.0.01.002.	(Sulfolobus virus SIRV-2)	[AJ344259]	(SIRV-2)

Tentative Species in the Genus

None reported.

List of Unassigned Viruses in the Family

None reported.

Similarity with other Taxa

Rudiviridae and Lipothrixviridae families have members with filamentous viruses containing linear dsDNA genomes that infect extremely thermophilic Archaea in the kingdom Crenarchaeota. However, the members of the family Rudiviridae are not enveloped, whereas those of the family Lipothrixviridae are enveloped. There is a large amount of genome conservation between members of the families Lipothrixviridae and Rudiviridae. Approximately 30% of the ORFs in the SIRV genome have homologues in the SIFV genome.

The mode of replication and topology of the genomes of the members of the family Rudiviridae are similar to those of poxviruses, African swine fever virus and Chlorella viruses.

Derivation of Names

Rudi: from the Latin 'rudis', 'small rod'.

References

Collated from VIIIth ICTV Report

Contributed by

Stedman, K. and Prangishvili, D.

Cite this publication as: Index of Viruses - Rudiviridae (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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