"Mamonoviridae", a Proposed New Family of the Phylum Nucleocytoviricota

Overview

Journal Arch Virol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2023 Feb 5

PMID 36740641

Authors

Ruixuan Zhang

Masaharu Takemura

Kazuyoshi Murata

Hiroyuki Ogata

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Abstract

Acanthamoeba castellanii medusavirus J1 is a giant virus that was isolated from a hot spring in Japan in 2019. Recently, a close relative of this virus, named medusavirus stheno T3, was isolated in Japan. Here, we describe their morphological, genomic, and gene content similarities and also propose to create a new family, "Mamonoviridae", a new genus, "Medusavirus", and two species, "Medusavirus medusae" and "Medusavirus sthenus", to classify these two viruses within the phylum Nucleocytoviricota.

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