Tolecusatellitidae
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Family: Tolecusatellitidae
Genera

Tolecusatellitidae is a incertae sedis ssDNA/ssDNA(+) family of biological satellites. The family contains two genera and 131 species.[1] This family of viruses depend on the presence of another virus (helper viruses) to replicate their genomes, as such they have minimal genomes with very low genomic redundancy. [2]

Name

The name Tolecusatellitidae is a combination of Tolecu, from the first DNA satellite shown to be associated with Tomato leaf curl virus and satellite, the fact that it is a satellite.[3]

Taxonomy

The species are ssDNA unless specified ssDNA(+). There are 62 ssDNA(+) and 69 ssDNA satellites.

Betasatellite

Deltasatellite

References

  1. ^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2022 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  2. ^ Silva JM, Pratas D, Caetano T, Matos S (August 2022). "The complexity landscape of viral genomes". GigaScience. 11: giac079. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac079. PMC 9366995. PMID 35950839.
  3. ^ "Proposal 2016.021a-kP.A.v2.Tolecusatellitidae.pdf PDF" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 19 August 2023.