Adnaviria: a New Realm for Archaeal Filamentous Viruses with Linear A-Form Double-Stranded DNA Genomes

Mart Krupovic, Jens H Kuhn, Fengbin Wang, Diana P Baquero, Valerian V Dolja, Edward H Egelman, David Prangishvili, Eugene V Koonin

Abstract

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has recently adopted a comprehensive, hierarchical system of virus taxa. The highest ranks in this hierarchy are realms, each of which is considered monophyletic but apparently originated independently of other realms. Here, we announce the creation of a new realm,

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