@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001106, author = "Prangishvili, David and Krupovic, Mart and ICTV Report Consortium", title = "ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Bicaudaviridae", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "2018", volume = "99", number = "7", pages = "864-865", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001106", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001106", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Bicaudaviridae", keywords = "ICTV Report", keywords = "Acidianus two-tailed virus", keywords = "taxonomy", abstract = "The family Bicaudaviridae includes viruses that infect hyperthermophilic archaea in the genus Acidianus. The circular double-stranded DNA genome of Acidianus two-tailed virus consists of 62 730 bp, and replication can be either lytic or lysogenic. Virions undergo unique extracellular morphogenesis, being released from host cells as spindle-shaped particles that subsequently develop long tails, one at each of the two pointed ends. The spindle-shaped morphology represents a group of archaea-specific virion morphotypes. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Bicaudaviridae which is available at www.ictv.global/report/bicaudaviridae.", }