Shotokuvirae
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Monodnaviria
Kingdom: Shotokuvirae
Subtaxa

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Shotokuvirae is a kingdom of viruses.[1]

Nomenclature

The kingdom, Shotokuvirae, was named after Japan's Empress Shotoku (718-770 AD), who reigned over Japan twice, first as Empress Koken and later as Empress Shotoku, and who created the world's earliest written record of a plant virus disease, which was a poem to her followers about a geminivirus eupatorium yellow vein virus infection of a eupatorium plant, which she had described as having turned yellow.[2]

Taxonomy

The following phyla are recognized:

References

  1. ^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release". talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ^ Fuji, Shin-Ichi; Mochizuki, Tomofumi; Okuda, Mitsuru; Tsuda, Shinya; Kagiwada, Satoshi; Sekine, Ken-Taro; Ugaki, Masashi; Natsuaki, Keiko T.; Isogai, Masamichi; Maoka, Tetsuo; Takeshita, Minoru; Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki; Mise, Kazuyuki; Sasaya, Takahide; Kondo, Hideki; Kubota, Kenji; Yamaji, Yasuyuki; Iwanami, Toru; Ohshima, Kazusato; Kobayashi, Kappei; Hataya, Tatsuji; Sano, Teruo; Suzuki, Nobuhiro (2022). "Plant viruses and viroids in Japan". Journal of General Plant Pathology. 88 (2): 105–127. doi:10.1007/s10327-022-01051-y. S2CID 246019641.


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