TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomic reorganization of family Partitiviridae and other recent progress in partitivirus research
AU - Nibert, Max L.
AU - Ghabrial, Said A.
AU - Maiss, Edgar
AU - Lesker, Till
AU - Vainio, Eeva J.
AU - Jiang, Daohong
AU - Suzuki, Nobuhiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Support to the authors was provided as follows: to S.A.G. by the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (grant KSEF-2178-RDE-013 ); to E.J.V. by the Academy of Finland (grant 251193 ) and the Finnish Forest Research Institute ; to D.J. by China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (grant 31125023 ); and to N.S. by the Japan Science and Technology Research Promotion Program for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, and Food Industry .
PY - 2014/8/8
Y1 - 2014/8/8
N2 - Phylogenetic analyses have prompted a taxonomic reorganization of family Partitiviridae (encapsidated, bisegmented dsRNA viruses that infect plants, fungi, or protozoa), the focus of this review. After a brief introduction to partitiviruses, the taxonomic changes are discussed, including replacement of former genera Partitivirus, Alphacryptovirus, and Betacryptovirus, with new genera Alphapartitivirus, Betapartitivirus, Gammapartitivirus, and Deltapartitivirus, as well as redistribution of species among these new genera. To round out the review, other recent progress of note in partitivirus research is summarized, including discoveries of novel partitivirus sequences by metagenomic approaches and mining of sequence databases, determinations of fungal partitivirus particle structures, demonstrations of fungal partitivirus transmission to new fungal host species, evidence for other aspects of partitivirus-host interactions and host effects, and identification of other fungal or plant viruses with some similarities to partitiviruses. Some outstanding questions are also discussed.
AB - Phylogenetic analyses have prompted a taxonomic reorganization of family Partitiviridae (encapsidated, bisegmented dsRNA viruses that infect plants, fungi, or protozoa), the focus of this review. After a brief introduction to partitiviruses, the taxonomic changes are discussed, including replacement of former genera Partitivirus, Alphacryptovirus, and Betacryptovirus, with new genera Alphapartitivirus, Betapartitivirus, Gammapartitivirus, and Deltapartitivirus, as well as redistribution of species among these new genera. To round out the review, other recent progress of note in partitivirus research is summarized, including discoveries of novel partitivirus sequences by metagenomic approaches and mining of sequence databases, determinations of fungal partitivirus particle structures, demonstrations of fungal partitivirus transmission to new fungal host species, evidence for other aspects of partitivirus-host interactions and host effects, and identification of other fungal or plant viruses with some similarities to partitiviruses. Some outstanding questions are also discussed.
KW - Cryptovirus
KW - DsRNA virus
KW - Fungal virus
KW - Partitiviridae
KW - Partitivirus
KW - Plant virus
KW - Protozoal virus
KW - Virus taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.04.007
DO - 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.04.007
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24768846
AN - SCOPUS:84903701280
SN - 0168-1702
VL - 188
SP - 128
EP - 141
JO - Virus Research
JF - Virus Research
ER -
