The Unexplored Diversity of Pleolipoviruses: The Surprising Case of Two Viruses with Identical Major Structural Modules.

ABSTRACT: Extremely halophilic Archaea are the only known hosts for pleolipoviruses which are pleomorphic non-lytic viruses resembling cellular membrane vesicles. Recently, pleolipoviruses have been acknowledged by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) as the first virus family that contains related viruses with different DNA genomes. Genomic diversity of pleolipoviruses includes single-stranded and double-stranded DNA molecules and their combinations as linear or circular molecules. To date, only eight viruses belong to the family Pleolipoviridae. In order to obtain more information about the diversity of pleolipoviruses, further isolates are needed. Here we describe the characterization of a new halophilic virus isolate, Haloarcula hispanica pleomorphic vir

SUBMITTER: Atanasova NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867852 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature