Diversity, taxonomy, and evolution of archaeal viruses of the class Caudoviricetes

• Main Authors: Ying Liu, Tatiana A. Demina, Simon Roux, Pakorn Aiewsakun, Darius Kazlauskas, Peter Simmonds, David Prangishvili, Hanna M. Oksanen, Mart Krupovic
• Other Authors: Université Paris Cité
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology; Neuroscience
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/75544
• Institution: Mahidol University

The archaeal tailed viruses (arTV), evolutionarily related to tailed double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) bacteriophages of the class Caudoviricetes, represent the most common isolates infecting halophilic archaea. Only a handful of these viruses have been genomically characterized, limiting our appreciation...