Family Totiviridae


Compiled for the VIth ICTV Report by Ghabrial SA, Bruenn JA, Buck K, Wickner RB, Patterson JL, Stuart KD, Wang AL, Wang CC


Taxonomic Structure of the Family
ICTVdB - Description of the Family

References cited in the VIth ICTV Report

Bruenn JA (1980) Virus-like particles of yeast. Ann Rev Microbiol 34:49-68

Buck KW (1986) Fungal virology-an overview. In: Buck KW (ed) Fungal virology. CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, pp 1-84

Dinman JD, Icho T, Wickner RB (1991) A -1 ribosomal frameshift in a double stranded RNA virus of yeast forms a gag-pol fusion protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88: 174-178

Furfine ES, Wang CC (1990) Transfection of the Giardia lamblia double-stranded RNA virus into Giardia lamblia by electroporation of a single-stranded RNA copy of the viral genome. Mol Cell Biol 10: 3659-3663

Ghabrial SA (1994) New developments in Fungal Virology. Adv Virus Res

Ghabrial SA, Havens WM (1989) Conservative transcription of Helminthosporium victoriae 190S virus double-stranded RNA in vitro. J Gen Virol 70: 1025-1035

Ghabrial SA, Havens WM (1992) The Helminthosporium victoriae 190S mycovirus has two forms distinguishable by capsid composition and phosphorylation state. Virology 88: 657-665

Koltin Y (1988) The killer systems of Ustilago maydis. In: Koltin Y, Leibowitz M (eds) Viruses of fungi and simple enkaryotes. Marcel Dekker, New York pp 209-243

Patterson JL (1990) Viruses of protozoan parasites. Exper parasitol 70: 111-113

Shelbourn SL, Day PR, Buck KW (1988) Relationships and functions of virus double-stranded RNA in a P4 killer strain of Ustilago maydis. J Gen Virol 69: 975-982

Stuart KD, Weeks R, Guilbride L, Myler PJ (1992) Molecular organization of Leishmania RNA virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89: 8596-8600

Tarr PI, Aline RF, Smiley BL, Sholler J, Keithly J, Stuart KD (1988) LR1: a candidate RNA virus of Leishmania. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85: 9572-9575

Tzeng T-H, Tu C-L, Bruenn JA (1992) Ribosomal frameshifting requires a pseudoknot in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae double-stranded RNA virus. J Virol 66: 999-1006

Wang AL, Wang CC (1991) Viruses of the protozoa. Ann Rev Microbial 45: 251-263

White TC, Wang CC (1990) RNA dependent RNA polymerase activity associated with the double-stranded RNA virus of Giardia lamblia. Nucl Acids Res 18: 553-559

Widmer G, Patterson JL (1991) Genome structure and RNA polymerase activity in Leishmania virus. J Virol 65: 4211-4215

Wickner RB (1989) Yeast virology. FASEB J 3: 2257-2265

Wickner RB (1992) Double-stranded and single-stranded RNA viruses of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. Ann Rev Microbiol 46: 347-375


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