The genomic underpinnings of eukaryotic virus taxonomy: creating a sequence-based framework for family-level virus classification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classifies viruses into families, genera and species and provides a regulated system for their nomenclature that is universally used in virus descriptions. Virus taxonomic assignments have traditionally been based upon virus phenotypic properties such as host range, virion morphology and replication mechanisms, particularly at family level. However, gene sequence comparisons provide a clearer guide to their evolutionary relationships and provide the only information that may guide the incorporation of viruses detected in environmental (metagenomic) studies that lack any phenotypic data.

Results

The current study sought to determine whether the existing virus taxonomy could be reproduced by examination of ge

SUBMITTER: Aiewsakun P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819261 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature