Tymovirales Explained

Tymovirales is an order of viruses with five families. The group consists of viruses which have positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes. Their genetic material is protected by a special coat protein.

Description

Tymoviruses are mainly plant pathogens first described in 2004.^[1] They are characterised by similarities in their replication-associated polyproteins. These account for the majority of their genomic coding capacity. They are considered to form a group, phylogenetically, referred to as flexiviruses, with filamentous virions.

Bibliography

• Book: King. Andrew M. Q.. Virus taxonomy : classification and nomenclature of viruses : ninth report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. 2012. Academic Press. London. 978-0123846846. https://books.google.com/books?id=KXRCYay3pH4C. 9 December 2014. Tymovirales. 901. etal.

External links

• ICTV Virus Taxonomy 2009
• UniProt Taxonomy

Notes and References

1. Adams MJ, Antinow JF, Bar-Joseph M, Brunt AA, Candresse T, Foster GD, Martelli GP, Milne RG, Fauquet CM . 2004 . The new plant family Flexiviridae and assessment of molecular criteria for species demarcation . Arch Virol . 149 . 5 . 1045–60 . 15098118 . 10.1007/s00705-004-0304-0. 34493607 . free .