ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Chaseviridae 2022

Anany H, Mahadevan P, Turner D, Adriaenssens EM, Kropinski A. (2022)

Journal of General Virology, 103

Members of the family Chaseviridae are lytic bacterial viruses infecting representatives of the bacterial class Gammaproteobacteria. Chaseviruses have a global distribution. Virions of members of this family have a myovirus morphology (icosahedral head with contractile tail). Genomes are dsDNA of 5256 kbp with G+C content ranging from 39.352.5?%. Chaseviruses, like members of the family Autographiviridae, encode a large single subunit RNA polymerase, but unlike those viruses their promoter sequences have not yet been identified. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Chaseviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/chaseviridae.

Journal of General Virology, 103

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