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Volume 99, Issue 5

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Open Access

Abstract

The family includes bacterial viruses with slightly pleomorphic, enveloped virions with a diameter of 50–125 nm. Virions contain infectious, circular, supercoiled dsDNA molecule(s) of approximately 12 kbp. Plasmaviruses infect species, wall-less bacteria of the class Mollicutes, and are released by budding through the cell membrane without causing host cell lysis. Although the temperate bacteriophage Acholeplasma virus L2 of is currently the only classified plasmavirus, related prophages reside in the genomes of different species, where they are integrated into tRNA genes. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the , which is available at www.ictv.global/report/plasmaviridae.

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Keyword(s): Acholeplasma virus L2 , ICTV Report , Plasmaviridae and taxonomy
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Plasmaviridae
J. Gen. Virol. 99, 617 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001060
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