Manticavirus | |
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Virus classification | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Duplodnaviria |
Kingdom: | Heunggongvirae |
Phylum: | Peploviricota |
Class: | Herviviricetes |
Order: | Herpesvirales |
Family: | Orthoherpesviridae |
Subfamily: | Gammaherpesvirinae |
Genus: | Manticavirus |
Species | |
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Manticavirus is a genus of viruses in the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, in the family Herpesviridae, in the order Herpesvirales. This genus was the only genus to consist entirely of marsupial-hosted species as of the time of naming, hence the name component Mantica (Latin: knapsack), in reference to the marsupial pouch.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
References
- ^ "Taxonomy". talk.ictvonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Vaz, Paola K.; Hartley, Carol A.; Lee, Sang-Yong; Sansom, Fiona M.; Adams, Timothy E.; Stalder, Kathryn; Pearce, Lesley; Lovrecz, George; Browning, Glenn F.; Müller, Christa E.; Devlin, Joanne M. (2019). "Koala and Wombat Gammaherpesviruses Encode the First Known Viral NTPDase Homologs and Are Phylogenetically Divergent from All Known Gammaherpesviruses". Journal of Virology. 93 (6): e01404–18. doi:10.1128/JVI.01404-18. PMC 6401436. PMID 30567986.
Taxonomy of the Herpesvirales | |||||||||||
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Higher taxonomy: Duplodnaviria > Heunggongvirae > Peploviricota > Herviviricetes > Herpesvirales | |||||||||||
Malacoherpesviridae |
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Alloherpesviridae |
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Herpesviridae IgHV-2 | |||||||||||
Unassigned species listed below parent taxon –– Source: ICTV –– Wikispecies |
Taxon identifiers | |
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Manticavirus |
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