ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Metaviridae.

ABSTRACT: Metaviridae is a family of retrotransposons and reverse-transcribing viruses with long terminal repeats belonging to the order Ortervirales. Members of the genera Errantivirus and Metavirus include, respectively, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty3 virus and its Gypsy-like relatives in drosophilids. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Metaviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/metaviridae.

SUBMITTER: Llorens C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879559 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature