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| Ultrastructure of a cypovirus virion | |
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| TEM of occlusion body and virions of Dendrolimus punctatus cypovirus | |
Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Duplornaviricota |
| Class: | Resentoviricetes |
| Order: | Reovirales |
| Family: | Sedoreoviridae |
| Subfamily: | Spinareovirinae |
| Genus: | Cypovirus |
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Cypovirus, short for cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus, is a genus of double-stranded RNA viruses in the family Reoviridae and subfamily Spinareovirinae, isolated solely from insects. Associated diseases include chronic diarrhoea and pale blue iridescence in the guts of larvae.[1] It contains sixteen species.[2][3]
Cypoviruses are structurally similar to the more widely studied nucleopolyhedroviruses, a genus of arthropodean viruses in the family Baculoviridae, except for their RNA genomes and cytoplasmic replication instead of DNA genomes and nucleic replication.
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