Papovaviricetes

Papovaviricetes
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Monodnaviria
Kingdom: Shotokuvirae
Phylum: Cossaviricota
Class: Papovaviricetes
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Papovaviricetes is a class of viruses.[1] The class shares the name of an abolished family, Papovaviridae, which was split in 1999 into the two families Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae.[2] The class was established in 2019 and takes its name from the former family.[3]

  1. ^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release". talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ^ "ICTV Taxonomy history: Papovaviridae". talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  3. ^ Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH (18 October 2019). "Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for ssDNA viruses" (docx). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 2 July 2020.