Tolivirales Explained

Tolivirales is an order of RNA viruses which infect insects and plants.[1] Member viruses have a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The virions are non-enveloped, spherical, and have an icosahedral capsid.[2] [3] [4] The name of the group is a syllabic abbreviation of "tombusvirus-like" with the suffix -virales indicating a virus order.[5]

Taxonomy

The following families are recognized:

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: Carmotetraviridae ~ ViralZone page. viralzone.expasy.org. 2020-05-30.
  3. Web site: Tombusviridae ~ ViralZone page. viralzone.expasy.org. 2020-05-30.
  4. Web site: Luteoviridae ~ ViralZone page. viralzone.expasy.org. 2020-05-30.
  5. 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.

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