Alsuviricetes Explained

Alsuviricetes is a class of positive-strand RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes.^[1] The name of the group is a syllabic abbreviation of "alpha supergroup" with the suffix -viricetes indicating a virus class.^[2]

Taxonomy

The following orders are recognized:

• Hepelivirales
• Martellivirales
• Tymovirales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release. talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. 25 April 2020.
2. Web site: Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria. Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). en. 2020-05-21.