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Viriforms—A New Category of Classifiable Virus-Derived Genetic Elements

  • Jens H. Kuhn and
  • Eugene V. Koonin
Biomolecules2023, 13(2), 289;https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13020289

3 February 2023

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recently accepted viriforms as a new polyphyletic category of classifiable virus-derived genetic elements, juxtaposed to the polyphyletic virus, viroid, and satellite nucleic acid categories....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virology 130 Years After Ivanovsky—A Theme Issue Commemorating the Discovery of Viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky)
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