The complete nucleotide sequence of a totivirus from Aspergillus foetidus
Author
Kozlakidis, Zisis
Herrero, Noemi
Coutts, Robert H.A.
Attention
2299/11211
Abstract
Virus infection of Aspergillus foetidus was first described in the 1970s, and the purified virus, named Aspergillus foetidus virus (AfV), contains at least two types of icosahedral particles, called AfV-fast (-F) and AfV-slow (-S) virions, based on their relative electrophoretic mobilities. AfV-S consists of a mixture of two viruses, the larger of which, called AfV-S1, is a dsRNA-containing member of the genus Victorivirus in the family Totiviridae, and its complete nucleotide sequence is described here.