Picorna-like virus database

Page last updated: 18 August 2007

Picorna-like viruses of invertebrates
Virus	Strain	Region	Length	Accession No.	Reference	Comments
Acyrthosiphon pisum virus (APV)		CG	10035	AF024514	van der Wilk et al., 1997	seq. len. incl. some poly(A) tail
Kelp fly virus (KFV)		CG	11035	DQ112227	Hartley et al., 2005
Nora virus	Sweden	CG	11911	DQ321720	Habayeb et al., 2006	isolated from Drosophila melanogaster

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Click here for the unassigned genus Iflavirus
CG = complete genome; (p) = partial gene sequence; N/A = not available on the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases

References

Habayeb, M.S., Ekengren, S.K. and Hultmark, D. (2006). Nora virus, a persistent virus in Drosophila, defines a new picorna-like virus family. J. Gen. Virol. 87: 3045-3051.

Hartley, C.J., Greenwood, D.R., Gilbert, R.J.C., Masoumi, A., Gordon, K.H.J., Hanzlik, T.N., Fry, E.E., Stuart, D.I. and Scotti, P.D. (2005). Kelp fly virus: a novel group of insect picorna-like viruses as defined by genome sequence analysis and a distinctive virion structure J. Virol. 79: 13385-13398.

van der Wilk, F., Dullemans, A.M., Verbeek, M., Van den Heuvel, J.F.J.M. (1997). Nucleotide sequence and genomic organization of Acyrthosiphon pisum virus. Virology 238: 353-362.

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